UNESCO AI Ethics and Human Rights
Equip practitioners to apply UNESCO's ethical values and principles and international human rights standards to real AI systems, and to complete a structured ethical impact assessment that protects dignity, autonomy, fairness and the interests of vulnerable people.
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Planned learning outcomes
- Explain UNESCO's four core values, ten principles and eleven policy action areas, and how they relate to other frameworks
- Apply human rights concepts of dignity and autonomy, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to AI systems
- Identify sources of unfairness and discrimination in AI and plan proportionate subgroup testing
- Use UNESCO's ethical impact assessment approach to scope a system and rate impacts on vulnerable populations
- Design meaningful human oversight, accessible remedies and genuine stakeholder participation
- Complete an ethical impact assessment of an AI system with a reasoned recommendation