MSt in AI Ethics and Society

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Education Aims

The programme aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to address the ethical and societal challenges arising from the use of Artificial Intelligence. It provides a professionally relevant teaching and learning environment informed by the forefront of academic research on AI and its ethical and societal impacts.

The programme will:

● Ensure that engagement with the ethical and societal challenges of AI is thoroughly informed by the knowledge, theories and methods of relevant established academic disciplines

● Provide a critical overview of the state of current interdisciplinary research on the challenges of AI

● Develop the critical research skills and analytical abilities needed to identify and address ethical challenges as they arise in practice from applications of AI

● Instil thorough knowledge of the role that different governance approaches can play in navigating the challenges of AI, and the ability to critically analyse those approaches

● Develop experts in the ethical and societal implications of AI with the ability and initiative to identify and address the challenges of AI across sectors and society

● Create a network for such experts to collaborate and continue learning as leaders in the field of AI ethics and governance

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

By the end of this programme, students will be able to:

● Discuss the ethical and societal challenges of AI with a full understanding of its history and its relationship to other disciplines and technologies

● Identify the capabilities of current AI systems, their key applications and the potential ethical and societal challenges of those applications

● Evaluate key ethical and societal challenges arising from the use of AI and the existing critical literature

● Apply theories and methodologies from a range of established disciplines and demonstrate their use in addressing ethical and societal challenges raised by AI

● Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of current governance approaches for addressing the challenges posed by AI

● Apply the systematic understanding of AI ethics and governance to develop new insights

Skills and other attributes

By the end of this programme, students will be able to:

● Synthesise and analyse research and advanced scholarship across disciplines

● Put theoretical and academic knowledge into practice

● Structure extended pieces of written work and present arguments clearly and effectively

● Plan and implement an independent research project

● Deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, and show originality in tackling and solving problems