
Explore AI ethics by design through four lessons that integrate ethical considerations from requirements through implementation, enabling responsible and fair AI technologies.
Define AI and its three classes—ANI, AGI, ASI—with capabilities and broad applications across healthcare, finance, retail, and transportation, and address concerns such as bias, privacy, job displacement, and accountability.
Explore the meaning of ethics as the study of right and wrong. See how honesty, fairness, and responsibility guide conduct and how ethics shapes laws, policies, and AI technologies.
Define the moral principles guiding the development and use of artificial intelligence, exploring fairness and bias, privacy, transparency, accountability, and safety through real-world examples.
Explore how ethics guide AI development and use, covering fairness, transparency, privacy, accountability, safety and security, and human-centered values to ensure trustworthy, responsible AI.
Explore artificial intelligence ethics by design through six principles: fairness and non-discrimination, transparency and explainability, privacy and data protection, safety and security, accountability and responsibility, and human-centered values throughout lifecycle.
Explore the integrated ethics by design approach, aligning AI and ML development with fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability throughout from requirements to deployment.
Explore the foundations of AI requirements engineering, identify AI-specific and ethical requirements, and apply elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management to design fair, transparent, robust, and privacy-preserving AI systems.
Assess ai quality by balancing model performance with conceptual soundness, explainability, fairness, data quality, transparency, and governance, while prioritizing privacy, safety, and accountability.
Integrate ethical principles into AI development by prioritizing data privacy, consent, representativeness, and bias elimination across architecture and data handling, with encryption and user control for fair outcomes.
Apply ai ethics by design to the ai reference architecture with bpmn modeling and simulation, embedding privacy, consent, fairness, and explainability across chatbot design and data practices.
Explore best practice development techniques for ai ethics by design, integrating bias reduction, transparency, and accountability across the model life cycle from feature engineering, training, to deployment.
Explore best practices for testing and continuous integration to uphold ai ethics by design, testing for bias, fairness, transparency, and ethical compliance across model lifecycles.
Explore emerging ethical challenges in AI, including deepfakes, autonomous systems, and AI in healthcare. Learn how ongoing research, standards, and regulations address them through policy, guidelines, and public engagement.
Explore ongoing AI ethics research and design by examining fairness and bias, transparency, accountability, and privacy, with leading initiatives like IBM AI Fairness 360 and DARPA Explainable AI.
Integrate ethics by design through international AI standards and regulations, and apply transparency, explainability, fairness, and accountability with governance and bias detection.
AI is one of the fastest growing and controversial subject in the technology sector, in the attempt to make the most sophisticated AI models possible, ethics may fall by the wayside. A lack of ethics could cause a cacophony of problems, for example without considering fairness as well as bias in an AI model potential users may decide not to use your AI system, furthermore it may end up undermining the effectiveness of your application if bias causes incorrect results. Even when ethics is considered before the release of the model and system, if ethics is not integrated into the AI model from the beginning there may be issues that could have otherwise been avoided.
This course written by Prof. Muthu Ramachandran describes the field of AI ethics and what you can do to integrate ethics into the design phase of your AI systems.
Course content:
Lesson 1 - Introduction to AI, Ethics, AI Ethics & AI Ethics By Design
Lesson 2 - Ethical Considerations in Requirements Engineering for AI
Lesson 3 - Ethical Design, Development and Testing for AI Systems
Lesson 4 - Future Directions and Emerging Ethical Challenges
Each lesson/section consists of video lectures as well as multiple choice questions at the end of each lesson to test your understanding.
*Disclaimer - This course uses AI text-to-speech software (transcripts are written by Prof Muthu Ramachandran)*