AI Ethics and Governance (Online Course)

tags: academic-training turing-commons learning-at-the-turing

Welcome to the online course on AI Ethics and Governance. This working and collaborative document comprises everything you need to know before the course start, and during the week.

Useful info

Dates: Mon, 21 November - Fri, 25 November 2022
Time: 10:00 - 16:00 UK time zone (BST)
Instructors: Dr David Leslie, Dr Christopher Burr and Claudia Fischer
Sponsors: The Alan Turing Institute
Contact: Skills and Training Team ([e-mail])

Schedule

Click here for the more detailed version of the course schedule with specific timings.

Date	Time	Topic
Monday	AM	Introduction and metaethical motivation
Monday	PM	Normative ethical theories
Tuesday	AM	AI harms
Tuesday	PM	AI values
Wednesday	AM	Stakeholder engagement process
Wednesday	AM	Guest lecture by Dr. Abeba Birhane. Dr. Birhane is a cognitive scientist, Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation and Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin.
Wednesday	PM	Stakeholder impact assessment
Thursday	AM	Fairness and bias mitigation
Thursday	PM	Accountability and governance
Friday	AM	Transparency and explainability
Friday	PM	CARE & ACT Principles

Joining instructions on Zoom

Please note we are using the same link for each day of training.

• Join Zoom Meeting
  https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/92316857285?pwd=czg1bEhkTHNoRkFBcGVOWVF3RzdFQT09
  • Meeting ID: 923 1685 7285
  • Passcode: 317522

Additional Platforms

This course is interactive. Each module block will consist of a lecture and activity. These activities will be run in groups using Zoom's 'breakout rooms' feature.

In addition to Zoom, you will need to have access to the following services (all free to use and accessible through a browser):

1. GitHub—a platform for hosting files and collaborating on projects
2. HackMD—a collaborative writing platform that uses Markdown
3. Miro—an online whiteboard and collaborative working tool
4. Slack—there will be a private slack channel that all participants can use for communicating during and after the course. The link will be added before the start of the course.

We recommend that you sign-up for each of these services in advance. All offer free services, which are fine for this course. We will also cover how the services work during the course where necessary.

Course materials and useful links

1. [Course Guidebook] — NB: the guidebook is still being updated, so some of the content is not available prior to the course. Please feel free to read through the available content below in advance.
2. GitHub Repository
3. Feedback form following the summer school
4. Application website for the summer school
5. Contact the Skills and Training Team at [e-mail] for any queries

Code of conduct

We are very keen to ensure that you both benefit from training and feel part of the community, and if you think you experienced any harassment, discomfort, or anything else caused by the instructors, your peers, the course materials or the training team, please get in touch by email at [e-mail]. There is no formal process of reporting incidents and we will assess each case individually. We will also ensure confidentiality where it's appropriate.

As a general guideline, we try to abide to the Turing Way Code of Conduct principles, which you can read here. This course also has additional contributing guidelines, which you can find here

We can only improve and ensure you are having a good experience if you let us know what might have gone wrong or just felt exclusionary. We'd be pleased not receive any complaints, but as you well know, that doesn't always mean everything is perfect - so let's work together to make the Learning at the Turing space is as inclusive as possible.

Zoom etiquette

• make sure you have the mic off at all times, unless you are speaking
• to ask questions during the sessions with Everyone please raise your hand by pressing Reactions -> Raise hand

• to ask for support from the instructors during the breakout room sessions Groups of 3 please click the button Ask for help and one of the instructors will join your breakout room

• try to keep the camera on as much as possbile, to allow for enhanced remote interaction with the instructors and the other peers
• use the Zoom chat if you prefer to add any thoughts in an ongoing discussion
• if you require/ would like to access typed captions during the summer school, please click Live Transcript
• make sure to install the latest version of Zoom before the summer school
• we recommend for best experience to join the Zoom session from a laptop/ PC as the phone experience will be lacking certain elements
• to note: we are not recording any session so that we can allow for more interaction between the students and the instructors

Recording

Please note that the session is being recorded for internal purposes, to improve further iterations of the training. Only the instructors are being recorded and we encourage you to keep your camera on and ask questions when/where appropriate. If you have any further questions, please contact [e-mail].

How to edit this document

Everyone should be able to edit this live document by clicking edit if in view mode, and the double pane or the pencil button (on the top left corner) if in edit mode already.

Improvements and suggestions during the course

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