AI Literacy and the AI Act: From AI, to Ethics, to Regulation
The European AI Act came into effect on August 1st 2024. Article 4 of the Act places obligations in relation to AI literacy within organisations that provide or deploy AI systems. Specifically, Article 4 says “Providers and deployers of AI systems shall take measures to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy of their staff and other persons dealing with the operation and use of AI systems on their behalf, taking into account their technical knowledge, experience, education and training and the context the AI systems are to be used in, and considering the persons or groups of persons on whom the AI systems are to be used.”
Presented by Prof Barry O’Sullivan, this skills development course provides a grounding in artificial intelligence, how ethical principles have been developed and applied to AI systems, and how these have informed the development of the AI Act. This course will offer companies a grounding to help them ensure compliance with the AI literacy obligations under the Act.
This comprehensive one-day skills development course will provide participants with:
– An overview of artificial intelligence
– Principles of machine learning
– Evaluation of AI systems: robustness, performance, fairness, bias, etc.
– Ethics for AI and the Seven Key Requirements for Trustworthy AI
– An overview of the AI Act
– An overview of the Assessment List for Trustworthy AI
On completion of this skills development course attendees will have an appreciation for the principles of AI systems, understand how ethics principles have applied to AI and informed the AI Act. Attendees will have attained a basic level of AI literacy sufficient to assess an AI system against the Seven Key Requirements for Trustworthy AI which underpin the AI Act.
This is a one day course will take place in hybrid format online/in person at University College Cork and will run from 9:30am-4pm on May 2nd, May 29th and June 26th.
For more info and to register: https://entire-edih.ie/skills-development/ai-literacy-and-the-ai-act-from-ai-to-ethics-to-regulation/
Deadline for registration for May 2nd course is April 16th 2025
Deadline for registration for May 29th course is May 8th 2025
Deadline for registration for June 26th course is June 5th 2025
