80-736 Ethical AI in the Wild
12 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Ethical AI in the Wild is a team-taught, cross-college listed summative core course for the AI & Ethics Certificate Program at CMU. Following your completion or concurrent coursework in Ethics, AI/ML and Philosophy, this course will provide the runway for you to apply your integrative learnings to a real-world project design process for non-profit, commercial or government clients that we will align with the course calendar. You will work in teams with your customer to understand their needs in regards to the ethical considerations that influence AI integrative design, AI deployment or communication not customers regarding the use of boundary conditions of AI technologies in functional systems. Working in teams, you will apply your skills and talents to create roadmaps for AI deployment and AI communication that satisfy the business needs of your customer while also adhering to your own principles regarding the ethical use and deployment of AI across all key considerations, from privacy and agency to power relationships, equity and justice considerations. The course will culminate in final presentations, attended by our clients, in which teams will share their process and their final artifacts with the whole class and with visitors.
Prerequisites: none listed
Offered: Spring 2027, Spring 2026
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