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Foundations of Ethics in Autonomous Systems

  • Defining autonomy within AI agents
  • Application of key ethical theories to machine behavior
  • Stakeholder perspectives and value-sensitive design

Societal Risks and High-Stakes Applications

  • Use of autonomous agents in public safety, health, and defense
  • Human-AI collaboration and establishing trust boundaries
  • Analyzing scenarios of unintended consequences and risk amplification

Legal and Regulatory Context

  • Overview of AI legislation and policy trends, including the EU AI Act, NIST, and OECD guidelines
  • Issues of accountability, liability, and legal personhood for AI agents
  • Global governance initiatives and current regulatory gaps

Explainability and Decision Transparency

  • Addressing the challenges of black-box autonomous decision-making
  • Designing explainable and auditable AI agents
  • Utilizing transparency tools and frameworks, such as model cards and datasheets

Alignment, Control, and Moral Responsibility

  • AI alignment strategies for regulating agent behavior
  • Comparing human-in-the-loop versus human-on-the-loop control paradigms
  • Distributing responsibility among designers, users, and institutions

Ethical Risk Assessment and Mitigation

  • Risk mapping and critical failure analysis in agent architecture
  • Implementing safeguards and off-switch mechanisms
  • Auditing for bias, discrimination, and fairness

Governance Design and Institutional Oversight

  • Core principles of responsible AI governance
  • Multistakeholder oversight models and audit processes
  • Building compliance frameworks specifically for autonomous agents

Summary and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Solid understanding of AI systems and machine learning fundamentals
  • Familiarity with autonomous agents and their practical applications
  • Knowledge of ethical and legal frameworks within technology policy

Target Audience

  • AI ethicists
  • Policy makers and regulatory officials
  • Senior AI practitioners and researchers
 14 Hours

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