AI Ethics and Society University of Cambridge

Overview

The AI Ethics and Society degree from the University of Cambridge is devoted to developing leaders who can tackle the hard AI questions that are most relevant for the workplace today, such as issues of: 

• privacy
• surveillance
• justice
• fairness
• algorithmic bias
• misinformation
• Big Data
• responsible innovation  

The MSt in AI Ethics and Society is an academically rigorous part-time programme, rooted in approaches from history, philosophy, governance, and science and technology studies. The programme will provide students with the critical academic skills, knowledge and analytical abilities needed to identify and address ethical challenges as they arise from the application of AI. 

By the end of this programme, students will be able to: 

• discuss the ethical and societal challenges of AI with a full understanding of its history and its relationship to other disciplines and technologies
• identify the capabilities of current AI systems, their key applications and the potential ethical and societal challenges of those applications
• evaluate key ethical and societal challenges arising from the use of AI and the existing critical literature
• apply theories and methodologies from a range of established disciplines and demonstrate their use in addressing ethical and societal challenges raised by AI
• analyse the strengths and weaknesses of current governance approaches for addressing the challenges posed by AI
• apply the systematic understanding of AI ethics and governance to develop new insights
• synthesise and analyse research and advanced scholarship across disciplines
• put theoretical and academic knowledge into practice
• structure extended pieces of written work and present arguments clearly and effectively
• plan and implement an independent research project
• deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, and show originality in tackling and solving problems