Ethics, Responsibility, and AI Governance

1.5 credits · College of Connected Computing - Professional

Conceptual foundations of AI ethics and the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. The alignment problem and specification gaming; ethical frameworks for AI decision-making; bias and competing definitions of fairness; privacy and data rights; the EU AI Act and evolving global regulation; industry-specific compliance requirements; AI-specific security from an ethical perspective; intellectual property in the AI era; building ethical practice at organizational scale. Students produce governance documentation for real deployment scenarios. Synchronous online with asynchronous components. [1.5]