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Masterclass: The Ethical Challenges of AI with Ricardo Baeza-Yates

As machine learning applications become more widespread, the problems grow alongside them. That's why it's important to be aware of and understand the various ethical conflicts that arise¿and what we can do to address or mitigate them.


Specific goals | Temary

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

OBJECTIVES

  • Explore the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence in the current context and how they can be mitigated.
  • Understand how our cognitive biases affect everything we do
  • Learn about current proposals to regulate the use of artificial intelligence
  • Understand how culture influences the ethics of technology
  • Discover how artificial intelligence impacts climate change
  • Understand the current limitations of artificial intelligence
  • Learn how seemingly reasonable applications can have ethical issues
  • Understand how an AI application can discriminate against people

CONTENT

  1. Current ethical issues in AI:
    • Discrimination: facial recognition, justice, gig economy, language models, etc.
    • Phrenology: predictions based on biometrics, etc.
    • Unfair digital commerce: exposure and popularity biases, echo chambers, etc.
    • Models that don't understand semantics or the context of the problem.
    • Indiscriminate use of computational resources.
  2. Future challenges:
    • Too many principles and techniques
    • Cultural differences
    • Regulation
    • Professional biases
  3. Addressing these challenges:
    • Responsible AI
    • Available tools
    • Best practices

Editions

Edition 1
Dates: From 01/01/26 to 31/12/26
Modality: Online
Language: Catalan
Dates: From 01/01/26 to 31/12/26

General information

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The online training courses are self-paced and you can register at any time.
Enjoy learning from wherever you want, at your own pace and without schedules.

Access
The activities are available at Campus Virtual de Barcelona Activa Certificate 


To obtain the certificate of completion, it is necessary to complete the final questionnaire of the course. Once passed, you can download it to your Personal space.

Modality: Online
Duration: 2 hours
Language: Catalan
Dates: From 01/01/26 to 31/12/26

Theme: Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Recorded masterclasses

Trainer's person

RICARDO

BAEZA YATES