Informed by recent scandals and advancements in AI Ethics, this one-day masterclass will help participants develop a guidance toolkit and operational checklist tailored to their organisation, operations, and context, enabling better practices for future projects.

Artificial Intelligence tools are increasingly accessible across all industries and at all levels of organisations. All employees from entry level upwards now have access to many of these tools in all aspects of their working lives, embedded in everything from search engines to MS Office applications.

While these tools bring enormous potential for increased efficiency and profitability for organisations of all sorts, there are also enormous potentials for ethical missteps, negative outcomes, and public scandals. These challenges can be difficult to address without a clear set of guidelines and understanding. Given this, the need for control and governance mechanisms informed by regulatory requirements, public expectations and sensitivities, and best practice standards is vital.

While the outcomes of neglecting such risks can be seriously costly and damaging, these risks largely fall into a few familiar categories that are simple to identify and address given the understanding covered in this master class.

This master class will provide participants with a clear toolkit to predict, prevent, and manage such risks. Taking a better practice approach informed by recent scandals and the field of AI Ethics, this one-day master class will support participants through the process of creating a guidance toolkit and operational checklist for future projects that is customised to their own organisation, operations, and context. The toolkit and checklist will allow each participant and their organisation to predict and prevent such risks in future projects.

Learning Outcomes:

• An understanding of the key ethical concerns and risks associated with artificial intelligence and automation
• Familiarity with some of the key recent scandals in artificial intelligence and automation and their causes and how they could have been prevented
• An in-depth understanding of how to prevent such adverse outcomes
• Knowledge of the benefits of ethical approaches to artificial intelligence and automation and how to translate these to others
• A range of tools and approaches that participants can apply immediately and directly to predict and prevent such adverse outcomes from artificial intelligence and automation
• Proven methods for explaining such protections and methods to key stakeholders

No pre-requisites for this masterclass.