Human-centered AI for Leaders

Name: Human-centered AI for Leaders
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Lead purposeful AI - learn to design, evaluate, and communicate responsible AI systems that enhance human flourishing

Created byProf. Dr. Ana-Maria Olteteanu

Last updated 8/2026

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What you'll learn

Understand the principles and frameworks behind Human-Centered AI and why they matter for leadership.
Apply ethical, psychological, and design-based perspectives to guide responsible AI adoption.
Evaluate AI systems beyond performance — considering fairness, wellbeing, and long-term impact.
Lead cross-functional teams in developing or implementing AI solutions that align with human values.
Communicate AI strategies that inspire trust, transparency, and engagement across your organization.
Envision future-ready, purpose-driven AI initiatives that enhance both human and organizational flourishing.

Course content

5 sections • 21 lectures • 3h 32m total length

Why Human-Centered AI -From Automation to Augmentation: Redefine the Human Story7:59
Explore how AI shifts from automation to augmentation, defining human-centered AI as a partner that augments, rather than replaces, human creativity, empathy, and well-being.
Visions of the Future: Emerging Frontiers in Human-Centered AI14:08
Explore the emerging frontiers of human-centered AI for leaders—social, affective, and creative AI—that foster flourishing and well-being while guiding ethics.
Your First Use Case: Co-Designing the Future of Learning8:52
Explore participatory ai in education and co-design with teachers and students to co-own learning tools, harness feedback, and build transparent, ethically grounded classrooms.

How Humans Think and Feel: Understanding Foundations for Human-Centered AI16:10
Explore how human cognition and emotion inform human-centered ai, balancing system 1 and system 2 thinking, cognitive load and heuristics, and fostering transparency and trust.
Human-in-the-Loop vs. Human-on-the-Loop - Designing Human-AI Collaboration11:43
Explore human in the loop and human on the loop designs that balance automation with human authority, guiding trustworthy, value-sensitive collaboration between people and AI.
Designing AI that Reflects Human Values and Emotional Intelligence8:54
Explore value sensitive design and empathic design to embed individual, organizational, and societal values into human-centered AI, boosting trust, inclusion, fairness, transparency, and ethics through emotional intelligence.

Designing for Trustworthy, Empathic, and Engaging Interfaces8:57
Design human AI interfaces that listen, explain, and adapt to users, building trust through transparent, empathic, and engaging micro interactions that support co-design and mutual learning.
Explainable and Interpretable AI - Making the Invisible Visible9:24
Learn explainable and interpretable AI to turn AI decisions into clear insights and trust. Use user-friendly explanations, counterfactuals, and tools like SHAP and LIME to reveal influencing factors.
AI for Creativity and Co-Creation - When Machines Dream with Us12:00
Explore human-centered AI co-creativity as a partner for inspiration, expanding imagination through a human-AI creative loop. Examine divergent and convergent thinking, authorship, and ethical co-creation in AI art.
AI for Emotional Intelligence and Support - Emotionally Aware Systems10:00
Explore how AI uses emotional intelligence to read cues from facial expressions, voice, language, and physiological data to respond with sensitivity and support human needs, while addressing ethics and privacy.
AI for Emotional Intelligence - AI in Mental Health and Coaching9:36
Discover how AI for emotional intelligence companions support mental health and coaching by reflecting on thoughts, rehearsing CBT techniques, and adapting to physiological signals to aid burnout prevention.
AI for Wellbeing and Flourishing p19:15
Explore how human-centered AI becomes a quiet partner for wellbeing and flourishing, fostering autonomy, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment through CBT micro coaching and reflective prompts.
AI for Wellbeing and Flourishing - p. 29:39
Explore how human-centered ai supports wellbeing and flourishing through companionship and culturally tuned support, guided by trust, personalization, transparent ethics, and designs that empower user autonomy.
Measuring Human Flourishing for Human-Centered AI Systems9:44
Explore measuring flourishing in human-centered ai, shifting from accuracy and speed to well-being, trust, and growth through indicators like flow, autonomy, and meaningful engagement.

Data with Dignity8:11
Explore data with dignity by designing human-centered AI that treats consent as an ongoing dialogue, protects privacy by design, and co-designs with diverse users to earn trust.
AI Evaluation Beyond Accuracy12:29
Evaluate AI beyond accuracy by focusing on human-centered metrics like trust, empowerment, dignity, and emotional resonance. Use mixed-method evaluation to blend qualitative insights with quantitative data for holistic understanding.
Prototyping AI for Impact11:07
Learn participatory prototyping and iterative, human-centered design to refine AI systems with empathy, feedback loops, and real-world field pilots that measure impact and ethics.
Designing Your Human Impact Lifecycle Map11:05
Design your human impact lifecycle map for a living, human-centered AI system by integrating data evaluation, feedback, and evolving relationships across design, deployment, and renewal.

Bringing Human-AI Systems to Life - Journey and Use Cases13:22
Explore how to bring human-centered AI to life by designing with purpose, empathy, and transparency across education, healthcare, environment, and civic use cases.
The Future we Want with AI - the AI 2030 Manifesto9:24
envision how human-centered ai can foster personal, collective, and planetary flourishing and craft a manifesto that reflects ethical and emotional dimensions of ai futures.
Bonus Lecture0:46

Requirements

No technical background required

Description

Artificial Intelligence is transforming every industry — but true leadership in this new era requires more than technical know-how. It calls for wisdom, empathy, and a human-centered approach.

In this course, you’ll explore how to lead responsibly in an AI-driven world. Drawing on psychology, ethics, and design thinking, you’ll learn how to align intelligent systems with human values — ensuring technology supports growth, wellbeing, and fairness rather than undermining them.

You’ll discover frameworks for responsible AI decision-making, explore practical cases from healthcare, education, creativity, and sustainability, and learn how to measure success in human terms — trust, empowerment, and social impact. You will learn what the frontiers of human-centered AI, including social AI, creative AI and emotional AI.

Through engaging examples, reflective prompts, and storytelling-based lessons, you’ll build the mindset and practical tools to design, evaluate, and communicate AI strategies that are ethical, inclusive, and future-ready.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Evaluate the human impact of AI systems using practical ethical and design frameworks.
Communicate purpose-driven AI strategies to teams and stakeholders.
Integrate wellbeing, creativity, and trust as success metrics for AI initiatives.
Lead with confidence in shaping an AI future that empowers people and communities.

Whether you work in business, education, policy, or innovation — this course helps you lead with clarity and conscience.
Join now to shape the next generation of AI leadership — one that’s intelligent, ethical, and deeply human.

Who this course is for:

Executives and senior leaders guiding AI or digital transformation initiatives.
Middle managers seeking to integrate human-centered principles into innovation projects.
Product managers designing or deploying AI-based products or services.
Data scientists and AI practitioners interested in the human and ethical dimensions of their work.
Policymakers developing governance frameworks for ethical and responsible AI.
Educators and academic leaders teaching technology, ethics, or leadership.
UX and service designers incorporating empathy and inclusion in AI-driven systems.
Consultants advising organizations on AI strategy, innovation, or digital ethics.
Entrepreneurs and startup founders building human-centered or socially responsible AI ventures.
Researchers exploring AI’s impact on psychology, behavior, or society.
Nonprofit leaders and NGOs applying AI for social good and community wellbeing.
HR and organizational development leaders focusing on wellbeing and future-of-work strategies.
Students or career changers preparing for leadership roles in the AI era.
Curious professionals who want to understand how AI can empower — not replace — people.

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The Human-AI Relationship - Past, Present and Future3 lectures • 31min

Understanding Humans in the Loop3 lectures • 37min

Designing Human-Centered AI Experiences8 lectures • 1hr 19min

Building and Evaluating Human-Centered AI Systems4 lectures • 43min

Capstone - Designing the Future of Human-Centered Ai3 lectures • 24min

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