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AI Ethics & Responsible Use

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AI Ethics & Responsible Use

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Advanced level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Apply responsible AI principles and audit AI systems for fairness and bias.

  • Verify AI outputs through red-teaming, hallucination detection, and synthetic-media checks.

  • Assess organizational AI risk and build a governance blueprint with clear owners.

  • Draft AI governance policy and evaluate frameworks for fit with your organization.

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There are 6 modules in this course

You’ll explore practical tools and frameworks to build ethical and trustworthy AI systems. Through hands-on experience with tools like AI Fairness 360, you’ll learn to audit models for bias, enhance explainability, and integrate transparency and compliance into your workflow. You’ll also develop and apply responsible AI checklists, ensuring your AI projects align with ethical and regulatory standards without compromising innovation. You will explore how to identify and mitigate ethical risks, detect and document bias, and evaluate model performance beyond accuracy metrics.

What's included

13 videos5 readings2 assignments4 peer reviews

You will move from judging AI output to systematically stress-testing it. Run red-team bias protocols, detect hallucinations across many outputs, and assess whether images, audio, or video are synthetic, producing failure-mode reports, accuracy scorecards, and authenticity reports along the way. Verification builds the confidence needed to put AI-assisted work in front of stakeholders.

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7 videos6 readings7 assignments

This module discusses the various risks and concerns associated with Generative AI, including business model risks, inaccuracies in AI-generated content, data security, and privacy concerns.

What's included

2 videos1 reading1 assignment

This module asks learners to deeply engage with the material by considering the presented ethical frameworks in the context of a hypothetical business dilemma and choosing an ethical course of action. Through deep framework understanding and use of tools for ethical decision-making, learners will be empowered to use ethical frameworks in their personal and professional lives thus protecting and improving the perception of their brand.

What's included

9 videos1 assignment

This module introduces learners to the foundational concepts of Responsible AI - exploring why ethical design, transparency, and accountability matter in modern AI systems. Learners will examine the core principles of Responsible AI, understand how bias and harm can emerge throughout the AI lifecycle, and discover how to embed ethical considerations into every stage of AI solution design.

What's included

5 videos3 readings2 assignments

In this project, you build a responsible AI governance package: a compact set of leadership artifacts that together set defensible AI practices for an organization. Working in ChatGPT, you will produce a bias-and-risk summary, a governance policy excerpt with accountability owners, and an ethics-and-mitigation section aligned to a recognized framework. It matters because a governance package is the evidence that you can lead responsible AI adoption in practice, not just describe it.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 assignment

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