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AI Policy & Society
Analyze AI systems through rights, equity, governance, safety, and public-interest outcomes.
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Outcomes
What you will be able to do
- Identify affected stakeholders and unequal impacts.
- Compare governance tools and their enforcement limits.
- Write evidence-grounded public-interest analysis.
Recommended first: AI Foundations
Curriculum
Course modules
Ethics and impact
Outcome: Distinguish values, harms, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes.
Practice: Create a stakeholder and impact map for one AI deployment.
Bias and fairnessPublic-interest impact analysisPrivacy, security, and safety
Outcome: Separate privacy, misuse, accident, and security risks.
Practice: Build a threat-and-harm register with owners and mitigations.
Privacy and data handlingAI security and misuse riskAutomation boundaries and safeguardsLaw and governance
Outcome: Compare regulation, standards, audits, procurement, and internal controls.
Practice: Compare two governance approaches against the same public problem.
AI policy and regulationGovernance and accountabilityPublic communication
Outcome: Explain evidence and uncertainty without hype or false balance.
Practice: Write a 300-word public briefing with sources, limits, and a decision point.
Stakeholder communicationSource and claim verificationUncertainty and confidence calibration
Applied capstone
Public-interest AI briefing
Publish a sourced briefing on one current AI policy or social-impact question.
- Stakeholder map
- Primary evidence
- Policy options
- Uncertainty and recommendation