Thinking AI: Bringing together ethical, legal and social aspects of AI (3 ECTS), a joint course offered by Sorbonne University and University of Milan - more information

Dates: 2023/2024

Inscription deadline: None (open for enrolment at any time)

Description: This course consists in a series of 12 free online lessons from recognized AI specialists collaborating with the SCAI, the Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence. With this series, we encourage as broad a group of people as possible to learn what AI is, and beyond the technologies, what are its impact on our societies. The following lessons are available:

• The role of statistics in AI
• AI & Epistemology
• AI and democracy
• Algorithmic bias and discrimination
• AI and new scenarios of discrimination
• Improving administrative action with AI
• Algorithms in platform economy
• Algorithmic governance, enforcement and automation
• The European Union’s AI policy
• Algorithm-assisted judicial decision making
• Equity crowdfunding
• Health Data Governance for AI

Further information available on the SCAI Education platform: https://scai-education.sorbonne-universite.fr

Study level: Bachelor / Master / PhD

Language: English

Prerequisites: None, open to all

Modality: Fully asynchronous

Important: Prepare your application in advance so that you can complete the steps mentioned below before the application deadline of the partner university. Please note that the number of places available in the courses is often limited.

Attention! Not all partner universities have the same academic calendars. Application deadlines are therefore specific to each host university. Please make sure you follow them (information available above).

Contact your academic advisor in your faculty to ask about the possibility of recognising the credits of Virtual Exchange courses in your study programme.

• For courses offered as part of the 4EU+ Alliance, please use the 4EU+ Learning Agreement document (see below).
• For courses offered as part of the LERU, please note that you are responsible for finding out in advance and agreeing with your faculty before registering.
• For courses offered as part of eMobi@Dg2, you must submit written proof that your academic advisor agrees to the recognition of credits in your curriculum, when you register on the eMobi@Dg2 website.

At the end of your Virtual Exchange course, please send the transcript of records issued by the partner university to your academic advisor at UNIGE for validation and recognition of the credits in your curriculum.

Alliance 4EU+: If the course is offered by a 4EU+ partner (Universities of Warsaw, Charles, Heidelberg, Sorbonne, or Milan), please fill out the 4EU+ Learning Agreement with your faculty advisor, and then follow the detailed instructions on the relevant course sheet, accessible on the 4EU+ Student Portal.

LERU: If the course is offered by a LERU partner (LMU Munich, Utrecht University, or KU Leuven), please fill out this questionnaire: Virtual Exchange for LERU - UNIGE students (Spring 2024)

eMobi@Dg2: If the course you wish to follow is offered by one of the eMobi@Dg2's partner universities, please follow the steps provided on the eMobi@Dg2 website.

If you have any questions or uncertainties, please do not hesitate to contact us via the contact form or directly by email at virtual-exchange(at)unige.ch.