An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence The Open University UK

Overview

You'll critically examines the historical, ethical and social issues around this technology within society, and you’ll hear from a range of voices on how to address these issues, from activists and experts to technology corporations, NGOs and government. Your study materials will include audio, video and text, and you’ll have access to a dedicated website, forum and learning advisers. While there is no formal assessment, quizzes in each unit will help you to test your knowledge.

After successfully completing this An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course from The Open University UK, you’ll receive a digital badge. This can be shared on social media, added to email signatures or act as a certificate.

You will learn

By the end of this Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course, you will:

• be able to formulate your own definition of AI

• have described the major historical, social, political and economic issues in AI

• have critically evaluated primary source information on these issues

• be able to formulate your own responses to these issues, driven by fact-based critical research

• be able to identify key features of risks in AI projects

• be able to use these key features to flag risks in a project involving a variety of types of data.