AI Standards: Roadmap for Ethical and Responsible Digital Environments

This course series explores transparency, security, and privacy in digital environments—with practical strategies to design ethical systems.

  • 0.5 CEU / 5 PDH credits
  • Launched 2020
  • 5 courses
  • 5 hours

Course Description

The purpose of this course series is to provide instructions for a comprehensive approach to creating ethical and responsible digital ecosystems. Because ethical transparency is critical to an organization’s success, it must be included in digital environments. Successful digital environments require rigorous ethical standards: Honesty & Impartiality, Protection & Security, and Safe Disclosure & Privacy. Creating ethical systems must be done through practical considerations of environment, constraints, emergencies, context, and ability. Ethical digital environments require understanding the data life cycle and ensuring equality, security, and privacy. In order for technology to improve our lives, it takes a community of partners to engineer and implement a comprehensive approach to creating ethical digital environments.

Course Objectives

  • Factors that relate to transparency in organization and systems
  • A comprehensive and holistic approach for the responsible use and development of technology
  • Design considerations and how the use of data and the data lifecycle play a fundamental role in privacy design
  • How privacy assessments integrate into software engineering and software development models

Authors and Instructors

Marsali Hancock

Visiting scholar at Stanford University, Media X

Dr. Marsali Hancock is recognized for her pioneering vision for youth protection in cyberspace; her leadership in shaping and distributing state-of-the-art, yet practical, countermeasures for online safety; and her relentless service to the most vulnerable in our information society. Ms. Hancock is a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Media X. She chairs the IEEE Standards for Child and Student Data Governance Working Group (7004). Ms. Hancock has sat on nearly 100 advisory boards including Google, AT&T, Comcast, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Verizon to name a few. She has also won multiple awards for her endeavors including the IEEE CQR Chairman Award.

Matthew Silveira

President, Objective Business Solutions and Chair of the IEEE P7002 workgroup and serves on P7004 and P7005 as a workgroup member

Dr. Matt Silveira is the chair of the IEEE P7002 workgroup and serves on P7004 and P7005 as a workgroup member. He has served as adjunct faculty at the University of California Extension in Davis at the California State University of Extension in Sacramento and at the Los Rios Community College District teaching courses in information security, data privacy and system architecture. Currently, he is the president of Objective Business Solutions, a consulting firm that specializes in information security and privacy by design emphasizing healthcare, first responder communication systems and voting systems.

Eleanor (Nell) Watson

Senior Scientific Advisor to the Future Society at Harvard

Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson started as an engineer teaching computer science and doing research on machine intelligence; she is a world-renowned-futurist thinker known for bridging the world of technology and humanity. She is a member of numerous societies and organizations and has been awarded several fellowships with esteemed organizations including IEEE. Today she serves as a Senior Scientific Advisor to the Future Society at Harvard. As a faculty member at Singularity University, she teaches classes on artificial intelligence, the philosophy of technology and how extensions of human capacity drive emerging social trends. The findings of her research has been applied in healthcare in the form of a body measurement solution which, in turn, launched her entrepreneurial career via the company she founded named QuantaCorp.

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