This course provides significant emerging areas of AI that do not yet warrant dedicated core courses or that extend core program content into specialized domains. Because the AI field evolves rapidly, the topics offered are reviewed and refreshed regularly to reflect current research, industry, and policy developments. Learners engage with one or more thematic modules selected from a rotating set of offerings – spanning emerging technical paradigms (e.g., sovereign AI, edge AI/TinyML, causal AI, federated learning, quantum AI) and responsible AI governance (e.g., regulation, algorithmic auditing, and responsible scaling).