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The deployment of Artificial Intelligence systems in multiple domains of society raises fundamental challenges and concerns, such as accountability, liability, fairness, transparency and privacy. The dynamic nature of AI systems requires a new set of skills informed by ethics, law, and policy to be applied throughout the life cycle of such systems: design, development and deployment. It also involves ongoing collaboration among data scientists, computer scientists, lawyers and ethicists. Tackling these challenges calls for an interdisciplinary approach: *deconstructing* these issues by discipline and *reconstructing* with an integrated mindset, principles and practices between data science, ethics and law. This course aims to do so by bringing together students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds into teams that work together on joint tasks in an intensive series of in-class sessions. These sessions will include lectures, discussions, and group work.

## Current Offerings
[Spring 2025 - Tel Aviv University & Technion](2025-spring-tau-technion.md)

## Past Offerings

[Spring 2024 - Tel Aviv University & Technion](2024-spring-tau-technion.md)
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# Spring 2024 - Responsible AI, Law, Ethics & Society

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<strong>TBA</strong><br/>
3 credit pts.
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<strong>094288</strong><br/>
2.5 credit pts.
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## Overview

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The deployment of Artificial Intelligence systems in multiple domains of society raises fundamental challenges and concerns, such as accountability, liability, fairness, transparency and privacy. The dynamic nature of AI systems requires a new set of skills informed by ethics, law, and policy to be applied throughout the life cycle of such systems: design, development and deployment. It also involves ongoing collaboration among data scientists, computer scientists, lawyers and ethicists. Tackling these challenges calls for an interdisciplinary approach: *deconstructing* these issues by discipline and *reconstructing* with an integrated mindset, principles and practices between data science, ethics and law. This course aims to do so by bringing together students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds into teams that work together on joint tasks in an intensive series of in-class sessions. These sessions will include lectures, discussions, and group work.

This unique course also brings together students from two institutes: Tel Aviv University and the Technion.

## Audience

Multidisciplinary: LLB (Bachelor of Laws) & LLM (Master of Laws) students from Tel Aviv University and undergrad & grad Data Science / Engineering students from the Technion.

## Schedule

| Class | Date | Topics | Verticals |
|-------|---------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------------|
| 1 | April 24th | AI & Us | Social Welfare |
| NO CLASS | MAY 1st | | | |
| 2 | MAY 8th | Liability & Robustness | Autonomous Vehicles |
| 3 | MAY 15th | Discrimination & Fairness | Labour Market |
| NO CLASS | MAY 22nd | | | |
| NO CLASS | MAY 29th | | | |
| 4 | JUNE 5th | Privacy | Transportation |
| 5 | JUNE 12th | Deploying AI applications with foundation models & generative AI | Ecosystem |
| 6 | JUNE 19th | Integration: Content Moderation | Social Media Platforms|
| 7 | JUNE 26th | Project Presentations and Course Summary | |

## Class Hours
The course comprises seven meetings of four clock hours, in a workshop format. The topics explore some of the core issues in the landscape of Responsible AI, law, ethics and society.

April 3rd - June 19th 2024 | Thursday
4:30 pm - 8:30 pm

## Staff

### Instructors

<a href="https://agp.iem.technion.ac.il/avigal/">Prof. Avigdor Gal</a>
Faculty of Data &amp; Decision Sciences
Technion
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<a href="https://en-law.tau.ac.il/profile/elkiniva">Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren</a>
Faculty of Law
Tel Aviv University

### Teaching fellows

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hofit-wasserman-rozen-843997b9/">Adv. Hofit Wasserman Rozen</a>
Law PhD candidate, Tel Aviv University
Business Manager at Microsoft R&D Israel
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelly-tabero-585692252/">Shelly Tabero</a>
B.Sc. in Data Science, Technion
Data Scientist, ThetaRay
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/omerbejerano/">Omer Bejerano</a>
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## Learning Objectives

### 1. Cross-disciplinary Dialogue

By the end of the course, the students will be able to communicate with professionals from other disciplines, identify gaps in the meaning of terms and perspectives, and develop a shared language.

### 2. Responsible AI Literacy

By the end of the course, the students will …

1. be aware of the impact of AI on individuals, groups, society and humanity, and proactively spot ethical issues and scan for unintended consequences and potential harms.
2. possess introductory knowledge and skills to oversight and audit AI systems through their life cycle (design, development and deployment).
3. be able to find and use resources to achieve all of the above.

### 3. Professional Responsibility

By the end of the course, the students will take the first steps in shaping their responsibility as professionals, and be motivated to act upon it.

## Format

The teaching is based on the [*signature pedagogy*](https://wiki.ubc.ca/Signature_Pedagogies) of each discipline; [*case-studies*](https://casestudies.law.harvard.edu/the-case-study-teaching-method/) for Law and *iterated and interactive research of data* (e.g., with Jupyter Notebook) for Data Science. These two pedagogies are being used in every class, accessible to all of the students, and integrated together.

## Teams

Every class is built around one central task that requires the integration of law and data science perspectives with ethical considerations. The tasks are performed in teams which will be formed before the start of the course. Teams are assigned by the course staff and are fixed for the duration of the course. Teams are designed to consist of mixed backgrounds and disciplines.

## Participation

Multidisciplinary teamwork is an indispensable component in this course, so the active participation of all students is necessary for successful learning. Therefore, a student might miss at most one class, but only for a justified reason after confirming with the instructor of their respective institution at least 3 days in advance.

## Pre-Class Assignments

There are few assignments to be done and submitted before some of the classes. The students will use the outcomes of these assignments in the class. The submissions are mandatory but not graded.

## In-Class Assignments

In every class, all teams are required to submit a half-pager memo and a deck of a few slides at the end of each class. Each team will present twice during the course.

## Final Project

The teams will conduct an algorithmic audit of an AI system within a concrete context. The audit requires the integration of technological, legal and ethical perspectives on novel case-sutdies, values and sectors that are not covered in the course.

## Evaluation

The assignments and the final project will be evaluated in terms of how well they reflect learning from readings and in-class discussion, with particular attention the integration of technical, legal, and ethical perspectives.

## Grading Breakdown

- Team final project: 40%
- Team in-class assignments: 35%
- Team presentations during class: 16%
- Individual pre-class assignments: 4%
- Individual participation: 5%
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- Current:
- Spring 2025 - IL: 2025-spring-tau-technion.md
- Past:
- Spring 2024 - US: 2024-spring-bu-berkeley.md
- Spring 2024 - IL: 2024-spring-tau-technion.md
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