Introduction to AI Ethics and Decision-Making
This two-week course provides a foundational understanding of how AI is impacting human ethics and decision-making in organisational and social life. Course participants will delve into cutting-edge research and scientific evidence on how AI is changing the way people interact and behave while reshaping ethical protocols and debates.
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Dates, fees & deadlines
Mode of instruction: Online (2 weeks) Academic dates: Monday 19 January - Friday 30 January 2026 Academic fees: Early bird €850
Regular tution €900 read more about what is included.Credits: 4 European Credits. Read more about credits and credit transfer. Winter course admission deadline: Early Bird deadline - 1 Novermber 2025
Regular deadline - 7 December 2025 -
Who is this programme for?
This programme is for working professionals and graduate students who wish to understand the science underlying core dimensions of human-AI interaction. People from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. However, please note that this course will use social scientific theory, research and ideas. Prior familiarity with social sciences and/or research will be helpful to participants for navigating this course.
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Programme description
Human interaction with AI is increasingly commonplace in modern organisation and society. Workers in diverse fields from healthcare to education are expected to interact with AI to make decisions and perform their jobs. But how does AI impact the ways they make decisions, interactions, and conduct ethics?
This course, we will do an in-depth review of social scientific research that has emerged in the past decade on human-AI interaction. We delve into cutting-edge research and scientific evidence on the ways AI is transforming how people think and work. The course topics such as trust, generative AI, human-AI teaming, risk, machine advice, and communication.
This course is intended to help students and professionals gain insights into AI’s transformative impact on work and leverage knowledge for their own research and businesses.
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Programme format
- This course will meet live via Zoom on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for week one and Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for week two. All live lectures begin at 12:30 and will last around 2,5 hours (with a break included). Do you live outside of Europe? Calculate the time of the live sessions for your time zone.
- A preparatory assignment will be due on Friday 17 January 2025, before the programme starts.
- Students will also complete in-course assignments and a final paper due roughly one month after the course ends.
- Looking for more information? Visit our practical matters page to find out more.
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Academic director
Dr. Sonia Jawaid Shaikh is a social scientist who works on how technology impacts human interaction and decision-making across various organizational and social contexts. She earned a doctorate in communication science from the University of Southern California (2020). Previously, she was the George Gerbner Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a consultant for the World Bank.
Her research has been funded by several fellowships, the Fulbright program, and Microsoft Research. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Melbourne.
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- Mode
- Short-term, online
- Credits
- 4 ECTS, 2 weeks
- Language of instruction
- English
- Starts in
- January