Incorporating Computational Sustainability into AI Education through a Freely-Available, Collectively-Composed Supplementary Lab Text

摘要

We introduce a laboratory text on environmental and socie tal sustainability applications that can be a supplemental re source for any undergraduate AI course. The lab text, enti tled Artificial Intelligence for Computational Sustainability: A Lab Companion, is brand new and incomplete; freely available through Wikibooks; and open to community addi tions of projects, assignments, and explanatory material on AI for sustainability. The project adds to existing educa tional efforts of the computational sustainability commu nity, encouraging the flow of knowledge from research to education and public outreach. Besides summarizing the laboratory book, this paper touches on its implications for integration of research and education, for communicating science to the public, and other broader impacts.