Free Online Course on Artificial Intelligence: Ethics & Societal Challenges by Coursera

Coursera Platform is offering a free online course under the theme of “Artificial Intelligence: Ethics & Societal Challenges”.

Artificial Intelligence: Ethics & Societal Challenges is a four-week course that explores ethical and societal aspects of the increasing use of artificial intelligent technologies (AI). The aim of the course is to raise awareness of ethical and societal aspects of AI and to stimulate reflection and discussion upon implications of the use of AI in society.

The course consists of four modules where each module represents about one week of part-time studies. A module includes a number of lectures and readings. Each lesson finishes with a mandatory assignment in which you write a short sum-up of the most important new knowledge/insight you gained from this lesson, and review a lesson sum-up written by another student/participant. The assessments are intended to encourage learning and to stimulate reflection on ethical and societal issues of the use of AI in society. Participating in forum discussions is voluntary but strongly encouraged.

Course duration:

Approx. 13 hours to complete.

Course topics:

• Algorithmic Bias and Surveillance
• Democracy
• Artificial Consciousness
• Responsibility and Control

What you will learn:

At the end of the course, you will have:

1. a basic understanding of the AI bias phenomenon and the role of AI in surveillance,
2. a basic understanding of the importance of democracy in relation to AI and acquaintance with common issues with democracy in relation to AI,
3. an understanding of the complexity of the concepts ‘intelligence’ and ‘consciousness’ and acquaintance with common approaches to creating artificial consciousness,
4. a basic understanding of the concepts of ‘forward-looking’ and ‘backward-looking responsibility’ and an acquaintance with problems connected to applying these concepts on AI,
5. a basic understanding of the control problem in AI and acquaintance with commonly discussed solutions to this problem,
6. and an ability to discuss and reflect upon the ethical and societal aspects of these issues.

Course costs:

You can either:

• Purchase course for $49 USD:

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