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Establishing Ethical Foundations for Autonomous Systems

  • Defining the scope of autonomy in AI agents
  • Applying key ethical theories to machine behaviour
  • Incorporating stakeholder perspectives through value-sensitive design

Societal Implications and High-Stakes Applications

  • Deploying autonomous agents in public safety, health, and defence sectors
  • Navigating human-AI collaboration and establishing trust boundaries
  • Analyzing scenarios involving unintended outcomes and risk escalation

Legal and Regulatory Environment

  • Reviewing AI legislation and policy developments (including the EU AI Act, NIST, and OECD frameworks)
  • Addressing accountability, liability, and the concept of legal personhood for AI agents
  • Evaluating global governance initiatives and identifying existing gaps

Explainability and Transparency in Decision-Making

  • Tackling the challenges posed by black-box autonomous decisions
  • Architecting agents that are explainable and subject to audit
  • Utilising transparency tools and frameworks, such as model cards and datasheets

Alignment, Control, and Moral Accountability

  • Implementing AI alignment strategies to guide agent behaviour
  • Distinguishing between human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop control models
  • Distributing responsibility across designers, end-users, and institutions

Ethical Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies

  • Performing risk mapping and critical failure analysis in agent architecture
  • Establishing safeguards and emergency off-switch mechanisms
  • Conducting audits for bias, discrimination, and fairness

Governance Architecture and Institutional Supervision

  • Defining the principles of responsible AI governance
  • Implementing multistakeholder oversight models and audit processes
  • Constructing compliance frameworks specifically for autonomous agents

Concluding Summary and Future Directions

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of AI systems and core machine learning concepts
  • Awareness of autonomous agents and their practical applications
  • Understanding of ethical and legal standards within technology policy

Target Audience

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

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