Dates: starts Monday 16 September 2024 to 2 December 2024
Venue: Microsoft Teams Online
Time: 12-week online course
Course fees R 6,000 per person
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The imperative for responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance is becoming increasingly evident.
This course examines the law, policy, and ideology around the development of AI, interrogating not only what the ethical considerations and regulation of AI are but also what they should be in a marketplace which is mired in a history of inequality.
A collaboration between UCT’s EthicsLab and the African Observatory on Responsible Artificial Intelligence, a flagship project of the Global Center on AI Governance, this 12-week online course will equip participants to understand and critically engage with:
- African policy and ethical considerations on AI;
- African ethical principles from AI governance and standards;
- The social, ethical and discriminatory impacts of AI;
- African AI governance and regulation.
This course is intended for Professionals, Graduate Students, Government officials, Regulators
Entry requirements: Bachelors Degree
Course Content:
- Introduction to AI and Ethics in Africa
- Current Perspectives on AI and Ethics: Bias and Discrimination
- African Ethical Frameworks for AI
- African Ethical Design & Responsible Innovation
- AI Governance and Regulation in Africa
- AI, African Regional Integration and the Global Economy
- AI and Gender in Africa
- AI and Privacy in Africa
- AI and Social Justice in Africa
- Autonomous Systems and Decision-Making
- AI and Africa’s Sustainable Development
- Future Perspectives on AI and Ethics: Inclusion and Equity
A digital certificate of attendance will be issued to participants who meet the requirements for attendance.
For more information or to register email ce.administration@uct.ac.za
Lecturers
Dr Adams
Rachel Adams is the Founder and CEO of the Global Centre on AI Governance.Rachel is a Research Associate of the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, and of The Ethics Lab at the University of Cape Town. She holds degrees in English Literature, International Human Rights Law and Philosophy. She serves on numerous international expert committees including for UNESCO, the UN, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Partnership on AI. She advises policy-makers around the world on AI governance, and was one of the lead drafters of the African Union Commission's Continental AI Strategy. In November 2024, Rachel's third book The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality will be published with Polity Press.
Prof Adeleke
Fola is the Executive Director of GCG. He is a privacy and technology lawyer by training, and an Atlantic Senior Fellow on Socio-Economic Equity at the London School of Economics.He is also a Visiting Associate Professor at Wits Law School South Africa. He holds a PhD in International Economic Law and Human Rights and conducted his post-doctoral work as a Fellow in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Fola serves as a Commissioner for the Human Rights Commission, Nova Scotia and produces research on human rights and corporate accountability.
Dr Segun
Appointed as the AI Innovation & Technology Consultant for the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), where he works on the project 'Toolkit for Responsible AI Innovation in Law Enforcement'. He is also an Associate Research Fellow with the AI Ethics Research Group at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Pretoria. Samuel has published widely in areas such as AI, data and computational ethics, algorithmic audit, responsible AI, and technology policy. He is the editor of Selected Issues in the Ethics of AI and Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI.
Dr Junck
Her interest in technologies - and what it means to be human in the age of AI - has sharpened over years of living and working in South Africa. Leah's work includes exploring human-technology experiences and how they sit in conversation with structural frameworks and the broader public discourse. It also includes thinking through ways of bringing contextual discussions to the relevant tables of decision-making. Overall, Leah’s work is shaped by the conviction that a more inclusive framing of critical digital literacy/expertise is crucial for mitigating the challenges of AI and honing in on its opportunities. She is the author of Cultivating Suspicion: An Ethnography (2019) and Like a Bridge Over Trouble: An Ethnography on Strategies of Bodily Navigation of Male Refugees in Cape Town (2018).