Administrative information


Title AI Risks and Risk Management
Duration 90 min
Module B
Lesson Type Interactive Session
Focus Ethical - Trustworthy AI
Topic Risk

 

Keywords


AI Risk,Risk Management,Resilience Management,Explainable AI,Interpretable AI,Security,Resilience,Transparency,Accountability,

 

Learning Goals


Expected Preparation


Learning Events to be Completed Before

None.

Obligatory for Students

  • High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG). (Apr. 8, 2019). European Commission. “Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI.
  • HCAIM Lecture on Risk and Risk Mitigation

Optional for Students

  • HCAIM Webinar on the European Approach Towards Reliable, Safe, and Trustworthy AI (Available on YouTube)
  • HCAIM Webinar on the Role of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning (Available on YouTube)

References and background for students:

  • High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG). (Apr. 8, 2019). European Commission. “Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI.
  • HCAIM Lecture on Risk and Risk Mitigation

Recommended for Teachers

  • European Commission: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Laying Down Harmonized Rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act), 2021
  • European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, Malatras, A., Dede, G.,AI cybersecurity challenges: threat landscape for artificial intelligence, European Network and Information Security Agency, 2020
  • High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG). (Apr. 8, 2019). European Commission. “Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI.”
  • Malicious Uses and Abuses of Artificial Intelligence 2020, Europol Publication

Lesson Materials



The materials of this learning event are available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

 

Instructions for Teachers


This interactive session aims to build a common vocabulary for students to discuss risk and risk management related to AI, specifically through the EU risk-based approach towards AI. The materials provided, as well as the overall outline and schedule of the interactive session are indicative and presented in order to better guide a discussion with the students. As long as the learning goals are met, instructors are encouraged to follow the natural flow of the discussion.

Outline and Schedule of the Interactive Session:

Duration Topic Description
15 mins Introduction Defining risk. EU's approach towards AI risk management. Risk management strategies throughout the AI lifecycle.
30 mins Classifying risk AI assets and threat taxonomy and risk management frameworks to describe technical design characteristics for AI.
30 mins Mitigating risk Approaching risk mitigation using use cases and common vocabulary, and reference models to leverage the discussion.
15mins Closing Remarks Discussion with Students. Questions and Answers.

 

Two HCAIM Webinars are particularly relevant to this interactive session. Those could be shown prior to the discussion or parts of them could be played to facilitate topics and manage silence.

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Acknowledgements

The Human-Centered AI Masters programme was co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union Under Grant №CEF-TC-2020-1 Digital Skills 2020-EU-IA-0068.

The materials of this learning event are available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

 

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