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AI in Practice: Challenges & Impact Assessment

AI in Practice: Challenges & Impact Assessment

This course is part of Responsible AI and the Law Specialization

Instructor: Alberto Rinaldi

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

9 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

9 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

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Tools you'll learn

Generative AI

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There are 6 modules in this course

Welcome to our MOOC on the legal and ethical goundations of AI in the real world, high-impacts sectors.

This course is aimed at professionals and students interested in the legal and societal implications of AI. It is particularly relevant for legal practitioners, policymakers, public sector officials, private sector actors, civil society representatives, academics, and students who want to better understand how existing legal frameworks apply to emerging technologies. Throughout the course, you will examine how artificial intelligence reshapes healthcare, warfare and defence, criminal justice, intellectual property, and environmental governance. Across these domains, the course analyses accountability, human rights, liability, innovation, and justice in contexts where AI decisions have profound consequences. By the end of the course, you will be able to assess how sector-specific legal frameworks respond to AI deployment and evaluate the balance between technological innovation and fundamental rights protection. The course culminates in a Capstone Project, where you develop a structured AI Impact Assessment Paper (2500 – 3000 words). This document can serve as a portfolio-level deliverable - demonstrating to employers, institutions, or academic programs that you can analyse complex AI systems through a legal-ethical lens and design informed, responsible solutions.

This module explores how AI is transforming healthcare - from diagnostics to predictive analytics - and what this means for consent, data protection, liability, and patient rights. Building on MOOC 1 (trust and responsibility) and MOOC 3 (ethics and fairness), learners connect abstract legal ideas to concrete medical contexts.

What's included

4 videos5 readings1 assignment

4 videosTotal 34 minutes

Introduction MOOC 44 minutes
Consent and Data Use in Medical AI 12 minutes
Health Liability: What Happens When the Algorithm Fails?10 minutes
Trust and Transparency in Digital Medicine 8 minutes

5 readingsTotal 50 minutes

Course Synopsis10 minutes
Consent and Data Use in Medical AI 10 minutes
Health Liability: What Happens When the Algorithm Fails?10 minutes
Trust and Transparency in Digital Medicine 10 minutes
Further Reading 10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Module Assessment: AI in Healthcare 30 minutes

This module examines AI in military and security contexts, focusing on accountability, human oversight, and the ethics of autonomous systems. It builds on MOOC 1’s accountability discussions and MOOC 2’s governance focuses to explore international humanitarian law, proportionality, and emerging doctrines of cognitive warfare.

What's included

3 videos4 readings1 assignment

AI now supports policing, sentencing, and correctional decisions. Building on MOOC 3’s focus on fairness and access to justice, this module examines due process, discrimination, and explainability in criminal law.

What's included

2 videos3 readings1 assignment

This module demystifies intellectual property and AI creativity. It expands on MOOC 1’s “AI as a person” debate and MOOC 2’s regulatory frameworks to discuss authorship, inventorship, and data ownership in plain language.

What's included

3 videos4 readings1 assignment

3 videosTotal 21 minutes

AI and IP7 minutes
Creativity/Gen AI in the Age of AI6 minutes
Data, Datasets and Ownership Rights 8 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

AI and IP10 minutes
Creativity/Gen AI in the Age of AI10 minutes
Data, Datasets and Ownership Rights 10 minutes
Further Reading 10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Module Assessment: Who Owns AI Creations?30 minutes

This module links environmental governance and AI ethics. Learners explore how AI supports sustainability and how data-driven systems might exacerbate inequality or environmental harm. It builds on MOOC 3’s justice framework and MOOC 2’s governance lens.

What's included

3 videos4 readings1 assignment

Learners will bring together insights from all four MOOCs to design a full AI Impact Assessment. This capstone integrates technical understanding (MOOC 1), governance and accountability (MOOC 2), ethics and justice (MOOC 3), and applied sectoral insights (MOOC 4).

What's included

1 peer review1 discussion prompt

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Alberto Rinaldi

Lund University

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