Building blocks of a course for aspiring AI-Ethicists

Building blocks of a course for aspiring AI-Ethicists — Murat Durmus

I’ve been thinking about what the building blocks of a course for aspiring AI-Ethicists might look like; It becomes apparent that AI ethicists’ activities are highly interdisciplinary and challenging.

The points serve as a suggestion and you are welcome to suggest further points in the comments.

◆ History and Philosophy of AI

◆ Key concepts and types of AI (Machine Learning)

• Supervised Learning
• Unsupervised Learning
• Semi-Supervised Learning
• Self-Supervised Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Strong & Weak AI
• o Difference between classical programming, statistics, and machine learning

◆ Data Awareness & Literacy

◆ Data Ethics Concepts

◆ The future of AI (what can we expect)

◆ Ethical Theories

• Utilitarian
• Rights-based ethics

◆ Ethical implications of AI

◆ Technology and the Greater Human Good

◆ Core ethical principles

• Diversity, non-discrimination, and fairness
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Explainability
• Human agency and oversight
• Technical robustness and safety
• Privacy and data governance
• Societal and environmental wellbeing

◆ Gender transformative operationalization of ai principles

◆ Human Rights & AI

◆ Cognitive Biases

◆ Types of Algorithmic Bias

◆ How to investigate and identify bias in algorithmic decisions

◆ Challenges of explainability & interpretability

◆ Privacy (Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning/Federated Learning)

◆ Ethical and moral issues associated with the development and implementation of AI

◆ How to make AI GDPR Compliant

◆ AI Regulation

◆ The criminal potential of AI

◆ The psychological and sociological aspects of AI

◆ Investigating Human-Machine interaction

◆ Concepts for ethical AI in education

◆ Human & Nature Centric AI

◆ Economics of Intelligent Automation

◆ How to put AI Ethics into practice

◆ Artificial Intelligence & Law

◆ Measuring & auditing AI applications

last not but least: “A kind of Mantra” (source: The AI Thought Book)

AI kind of Mantra — (THE AI Thought Book)

Murat

(Excerpt from the Book: “MINDFUL AI: Reflections on Artificial Intelligence”)

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