Right, fair and lawful
EU AI Act, AI ethics and algorithmic bias.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- AI for Leaders
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
AI does not sit outside the law. This leader's guide, which is not legal advice, maps data protection, equality, public law, human rights and sector rules, explains the reform of automated decisions under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and why a rubber stamp is not a safeguard, and sets out the EU AI Act's timetable and four risk tiers. It closes with the regulators who will ask questions and why lawful is the floor, not the ceiling. Fairness is a choice, not a setting. This module traces five places bias enters AI and shows how bias scales inside a system, using Amazon's experimental recruiting tool, the COMPAS and ProPublica debate and the ICO's audit of AI recruitment tools. Drawing on Kleinberg, Mullainathan and Raghavan and on Chouldechova, it explains three meanings of fairness that cannot all be met, the OECD AI principles, and an ethics check before go-live.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Identify the main areas of existing law that apply when AI is used in a public service.
- Explain the safeguards for automated decisions under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and assess whether human involvement is meaningful.
- Use the EU AI Act's four risk tiers and Equality Act tests to judge where a system needs the strongest governance.
- Identify the five routes by which bias enters an AI system and explain why bias scales once it is encoded.
- Distinguish calibration, equal false alarms and equal misses, and explain why choosing between them is a values decision for leaders.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 08The Law: Data, Equality and the EU AI ActAI does not sit outside the law. This leader's guide, which is not legal advice, maps data protection, equality, public law, human rights and sector rules, explains the reform of automated decisions under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and why a rubber stamp is not a safeguard, and sets out the EU AI Act's timetable and four risk tiers. It closes with the regulators who will ask questions and why lawful is the floor, not the ceiling.39 min
- 09Ethics, Fairness and BiasFairness is a choice, not a setting. This module traces five places bias enters AI and shows how bias scales inside a system, using Amazon's experimental recruiting tool, the COMPAS and ProPublica debate and the ICO's audit of AI recruitment tools. Drawing on Kleinberg, Mullainathan and Raghavan and on Chouldechova, it explains three meanings of fairness that cannot all be met, the OECD AI principles, and an ethics check before go-live.38 min
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Holding AI to account, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Leading in the age of AI, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, The human edge, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
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