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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ethical AI for Decisions in Today’s World

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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Learn how to design, evaluate, and govern AI systems that make fair, transparent, and accountable decisions in high-stakes real-world settings.

Syllabus

  • Map any AI system as a data–model–decision pipeline and pinpoint where ethical risks, bias, and harms can emerge at each stage
  • Diagnose common data and model issues and assess their impact on different groups and stakeholders
  • Apply practical mitigation strategies, including guardrails, domain-informed data repairs, and uncertainty-aware decision support like calibration and conformal intervals
  • Formulate value-aligned objectives and constraints, navigate competing goals through trade-off reasoning, and communicate ethical limitations transparently

Taught by

Swati Gupta

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