Course Details

AI Fundamentals & Governance Workshop

This course introduces AI fundamentals and the law and governance of AI in a workshop format. The course covers at a functional level the capabilities of different artificial intelligence tools and how they are developed. As students develop an understanding of AI systems, they will be introduced to how law, regulation, and governance apply to AI systems, including AI-specific laws (e.g., AI Act, Algorithmic Accountability Act), FTC oversight of unfair and deceptive practices, privacy, liability, and intellectual property. Students will learn the basics of prompt engineering and apply a variety of prompt-engineering approaches to solve various natural language processing and conversational AI tasks. Each student will develop a conversational AI system using prompt engineering to provide training, mentorship, or expertise to help a novice user to complete a task. Students will demo their conversational AI system in class and also write and present a short memo discussing the potential benefits, risks, impacts, harms, and legal considerations for the design, development, and deployment of such AI system. Before class meetings, students will complete assigned readings and videos on a collaborative annotation platform and provide comments and respond to other students’ comments. A substantial portion of class meeting time will consist of doing hands-on activities with generative AI systems.

Catalog Number: BUSCOM 914-0

Additional Course Information: MSL students only

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Course History

Fall 2024
Title: AI Fundamentals & Governance Workshop
Faculty: Linna Jr., Daniel W. (courses | profile)
Section: 1     Credits: 1.0
Capacity: 29     Actual: 21