AI & Data Ethics

The advent and rise of the use of AI and the lack of primary legislation in the UK governing its deployment has left many scratching their heads when asked by their organisations how it and other novel processing activities should be rolled out in a compliant way.

While technology and its possibilities continue to race ahead, promising competitive advantage, faster, cheaper and better decision-making, organisations are increasingly re-using and adapting elements of their existing compliance programmes to undertake ethical impact assessments to identify, assess and mitigate legal, social, reputational and environmental risks.

This course looks at how various existing organisational compliance programmes can be leveraged and used as a springboard into an all-encompassing data ethical approach, particularly when rolling out AI, including:

• understanding what it means conceptually for organisations to adopt an ethical approach to data processing
• formulating and articulating to the organisation the pros and cons of a shift to assessing data processing through an ethical prism, particularly when deploying AI
• uncovering the foundational elements of a compliance programme commonly seen in frameworks and organisations which hold themselves out to be ethically accountable
• considering the elements of existing compliance programmes which can be usefully re-purposed and re-used to move beyond technical legal compliance towards being ethically accountable

The course provides delegates with ideas, templates and pro-forma documents, which delegates can take away and use to implement an extension to their existing data risk management frameworks to encompass relevant ethical thinking, helping them to navigate with confidence the challenges posed by the lack of primary legislation in the UK governing the use of AI.