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Governance, Ethics and Regulation of AI

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Build an understanding of AI risk with this digital ethics and governance short course from UTS Open. You’ll explore the use of AI in business and community contexts and explore the laws, standards and regulatory initiatives that are designed to protect users from digital hazards.

About this course

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly ubiquitous, digital economy professionals must grapple with the resulting ethical risk. This UTS Open short course will prepare you to identify the challenges of AI usage in community and business contexts, as well as to explore the ethical, governance and regulatory frameworks designed to combat them.

You’ll explore:

  • The laws and governance frameworks required to manage AI in the digital economy
  • Australian AI regulations and European compliance models
  • standards for data records management
  • The importance of including ethical requirements in AI project contracts
  • The inclusion of consumer law protections in new regulatory initiatives for AI systems.
  • How to protect your organisation from regulatory and reputation risk when using AI.

Key benefits of this course

This short course has been designed to give participants:

  • insights into protecting organisations from major regulatory risks and reputational damage
  • an understanding of ethical risks in this area and
  • an update from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on current and potential regulatory initiatives.
  • CPD points: For NSW lawyers seeking to include this study towards their legal Continuing Professional Development requirements, note that completion of this short course may count as 5 CPD units (one legal CPD unit per hour).

Price

Special price $435 (GST-free) Special price offer ends on 12 April 2022

Full price: $484 (GST-free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

Discounts are available for this course. For further details and to verify if you qualify, please check the Discounts section under Additional course information.

Enrolment conditions

COVID-19 response 

Additional course information

Course structure and learning objectives

Course structure

9:00am: Welcome and Introduction

Chair: Professor David Lindsay, UTS Law

9:10am: Identification of risks and threats from AI

Speaker:  Edward Santow, Industry Professor – Responsible Technology, UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion; formerly Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner

  • Ethics and human rights
  • Regulatory framework
  • Good governance and human dignity, privacy, non-discrimination
  • Consumer and workers’ rights, protection of minorities and children

10:00am: Developing standards for AI applications

Speaker: Ian Oppermann, Associate Industry Professor, UTS Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology; Chief Data Scientist NSW

  • Data collection and training validation
  • Social scoring and deep fakes
  • Data shift purpose shift
  • Contracting for AI: training and validation; iterative development – risk of under specification
  • Privacy and purpose of collection – repurposing data.

10:50am: Morning tea break (15 mins)

11:05am: Role and Capacity of ACCC

Speakers:

Jane Lin General Manager of the ACCC Data and Intelligence Unit

Sally Foskett, Director of the ACCC Strategic Data Intelligence Unit

  • Developing the capacity to open the black box
  • Protection of consumer rights
  • Identification of bias and discrimination in code or data

11:55am: Regulation of AI in the European Union (EU)

Speaker: Nick Abrahams, Global co-leader digital transformation practice, Norton Rose Fulbright

  • What AI is within the scope of the EU Regulation
  • How to classify AI under the Regulation
  • Who is regulated, and what are the obligations?
  • Impact on AI lifecycles
  • EU governance structures
  • Enforcement and penalties
  • Data and ethics under the Regulation
  • Contractual implications for AI supply chains

12:35pm: Questions from the audience

12:45pm: Close

Course learning objectives

This short course will equip participants with an awareness of:

  • The ethical risks posed by AI systems;
  • The laws and governance needed to manage AI systems; and
  • Current and proposed national and international regulatory initiatives.

Requirements

Mandatory

This course will be facilitated online using Zoom video conferencing with course materials provided via the UTS Canvas Learning Management System. You will need:

  • Access to a computer or device with a reliable internet connection
  • Operating system with a web browser compatible with the Canvas LMS
  • Speakers or headphones for audio 
  • Microphone and video camera functionality (optional but recommended).

Discounts

Discounts are available for this course as follows:  

  • UTS alumni and current students: 10% discount with voucher code: Lawalumni
  • UTS staff: 10% discount (see below)
  • 2-4 enrolments from the same organisation: 10% discount
  • 5 or more enrolments from the same organisation: 15% discount

Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price.  

UTS Staff only: How to enrol and obtain your UTS staff discount  

Please contact the team at support@open.uts.edu.au  to clarify payment options and the 10% staff discount code.

Multiple enrolments from the same organisation

To take up this offer, email law.shortcourses@uts.edu.au with:

  • Your organisation’s name
  • The course name and date 
  • The number of people you’ll be enrolling (minimum of 5 participants).

How to apply your discount voucher 

  • If you are eligible for a UTS alumni or student discount, please ensure you have provided your UTS student number in your UTS Open Profile(under “A bit about you”). If you are an alumni and have forgotten your UTS student number, email support@utsopen.uts.edu.au with your full name, UTS degree and year of commencement.  
  • Add this course to your cart 
  • Click on "View Cart" (blue shopping trolley at top right of screen). You will need to sign in or sign up to UTS Open 
  • Enter your eligible code beneath the “Have a code?” prompt and click on the blue "Apply" button 
  • Verify your voucher code has been successfully applied before clicking on the blue "Checkout" button.

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Who is this course for?

This course has been designed for technical, legal, human rights and digital economy professionals from the private, government and not-for-profit sectors. This includes:

  • Data and AI project professionals, managers and CIOs
  • Risk and compliance managers and professionals
  • In-house legal teams and corporate counsel
  • Digital economy lawyers
  • Legal, risk and compliance officers
  • AI and IT consultants and data specialists
  • Non-executive directors
  • C-suite leaders responsible for AI risk
  • General legal practitioners

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