Strategies for Accountable AI

Program Experience

Highlights and Key Outcomes

In Strategies for Accountable AI, you will:

• Anticipate the legal, ethical, and business controversies posed by AI so you can proactively address them in your organization
• Empower yourself with techniques to mitigate AI risks as you adopt the technology
• Gain interdisciplinary insights from data science, law, psychology, and strategy on how to make AI systems safe, trusted, and responsible
• Assess your organization’s responsible AI readiness
• Learn how new laws, regulations, and enforcement across the globe are influencing AI strategy and how they could affect your business
• Integrate your key takeaways in a capstone “AI Impact Assessment” of your own organization or a system of your choice
• Benefit from direct live online engagement with Wharton’s AI faculty and networking with a select group of peers
• Get an inside perspective and insights on how leading organizations are currently adopting AI responsibly

Experience and Impact

Companies that pay attention to mitigating AI risks enjoy higher returns from their AI investments, according to a recent McKinsey survey. Yet many firms don’t devote sufficient resources to this critical aspect of AI implementation. A recent BCG survey found that although 84 percent of executives believe responsible AI should be on top management agendas, only 25 percent have comprehensive programs in place. With Strategies for Accountable AI, you can help your firm get ahead of the curve, ensuring it is prepared for fast-changing government regulations and technological advances.

In this engaging learning experience, Wharton faculty guide you through what you need to know about building, monitoring, and maintaining responsible AI solutions. Explore AI governance worldwide including legal requirements, emerging legislation, organizational practices, and ongoing policy debates. Next, understand AI failures and how to manage the risks, looking at cases from housing algorithms to facial-recognition systems to insurance claims. Other modules will help you become conversant with privacy, copyright, and licensing concerns; how racial and gender bias can manifest itself in machine-learning models; how people perceive human replacement by AI; and how to recognize AI abuses including misinformation and deepfakes. You’ll master the AI Readiness Tool, a diagnostic framework that empowers you to implement AI strategies that are trustworthy and compliant, and in your capstone project you’ll develop an AI Impact Assessment that evaluates a real-world system. The program’s content is regularly refreshed with the newest research findings and industry practices.

With Strategies for Accountable AI, you will leverage the guardrails you need to get the most out of artificial intelligence, reaping maximum rewards for your organization.

Session topics include:

• The AI Dynamic Landscape: Market Trends and Technological Insights
• Frameworks for Accountable AI: AI Laws, Regulation, and Governance
• When AI Goes Wrong: Accuracy, Risk, and Transparency
• Data Acquisition: Privacy, Copyright, Licensing, and the AI Supply Chain
• Fairness, Bias, and Discrimination
• Abusive Practices: Manipulation, Misinformation, Market Power
• The Human Dimension: How AI Changes Work and Consumer Experiences
• Techniques and Strategies for Accountable AI

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