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Building Trustworthy AI Specialization

Build Secure, Ethical, and Governed AI Systems.

Learn AI security, ethics, and governance to deploy trustworthy systems in production.

Starweaver
Ritesh Vajariya
Brian Newman

Instructors: Starweaver

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Intermediate level

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Identify and mitigate AI-specific security threats across the MLOps lifecycle using industry frameworks like MITRE ATLAS

  • Design and implement ethical AI systems with explainability, fairness metrics, and comprehensive governance frameworks

  • Create enterprise-grade risk management and monitoring systems for continuous AI validation and regulatory compliance

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Specialization - 10 course series

Secure AI Systems Across Lifecycle Stages

Secure AI Systems Across Lifecycle Stages

Course 1, 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify and classify various classes of attacks targeting AI systems.

  • Analyze the AI/ML development lifecycle to pinpoint stages vulnerable to attack.

  • Apply threat mitigation strategies and security controls to protect AI systems in development and production.

Skills you'll gain

Category: AI Security
Category: Security Controls
Category: Model Training
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Security Testing
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Application Lifecycle Management
Category: Vulnerability Assessments
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Secure Coding
Category: MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Category: Data Integrity
Category: Data Security
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Threat Management
Secure AI: Threat Model & Test Endpoints

Secure AI: Threat Model & Test Endpoints

Course 2, 4 hours

What you'll learn

  • Analyze and evaluate AI inference threat models, identifying attack vectors and vulnerabilities in machine learning systems.

  • Design and implement comprehensive security test cases for AI systems including unit tests, integration tests, and adversarial robustness testing.

  • Integrate AI security testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous security validation and monitoring of production deployments.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Security Testing
Category: AI Security
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Integration Testing
Category: Data Validation
Category: API Testing
Category: DevSecOps
Category: Unit Testing
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: CI/CD
Category: Continuous Integration
Category: Exploitation techniques
Category: Test Script Development
Category: Scripting
Category: DevOps
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Scripting Languages
Category: Endpoint Security
Document and Evaluate AI Ethics

Document and Evaluate AI Ethics

Course 3, 4 hours

What you'll learn

  • Create comprehensive documentation and conduct ethical evaluations of large language model systems to ensure responsible AI deployment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Auditing
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Compliance Auditing
Category: Accountability
Category: Technical Documentation
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Accountability Frameworks
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Case Studies
Category: Auditors Report
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Performance Metric
Align AI: Ethics, Strategy & Excellence

Align AI: Ethics, Strategy & Excellence

Course 4, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Ethical AI needs proactive bias measurement and fairness checks across demographics to prevent reinforcing societal inequalities.

  • AI success relies on mapping technical initiatives to business goals, continuously assessing ROI and feasibility.

  • Scalable AI operations require governance structures, best practices, clear accountability, and cross-functional collaboration

  • Responsible AI deployment balances innovation with ethics using technical guardrails and evolving organizational frameworks

Skills you'll gain

Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Governance
Category: Data Governance
Category: Scalability
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Decision Making
Category: Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Category: Data Ethics
Category: AI Enablement
Category: Technology Roadmaps
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: AI Product Strategy
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: Cross-Functional Collaboration
GenAI Prompting, Evaluation, and Governance

GenAI Prompting, Evaluation, and Governance

Course 5, 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Performance monitoring is essential for maintaining AI system reliability and fairness across diverse user populations

  • Technical architecture decisions (fine-tuning vs RAG) require systematic evaluation of costs, capabilities, and maintenance requirements

  • Effective AI governance requires proactive policy creation, technical guardrails, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure responsible deployment

  • Sustainable AI operations depend on establishing measurable quality benchmarks and continuous feedback loops

Skills you'll gain

Category: Responsible AI
Category: Governance
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Quality Assessment
Category: Content Performance Analysis
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Model Optimization
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Cost Benefit Analysis
Category: Risk Management
Category: Governance Risk Management and Compliance
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Category: Gap Analysis
Category: Generative AI
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: Performance Analysis
Design Ethical AI Rewards and Policies

Design Ethical AI Rewards and Policies

Course 6, 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Learners will apply reinforcement learning to design and validate reward functions while analyzing ethical and societal implications of AI decisions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Agentic systems
Category: Accountability Frameworks
Category: Policy Development
Category: Law, Regulation, and Compliance
Category: Regulatory Compliance
Category: Policy Analysis
Category: Due Diligence
Category: Reinforcement Learning
Category: Regulation and Legal Compliance
Evaluate and Apply Ethical AI Models

Evaluate and Apply Ethical AI Models

Course 7, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Cross-modal evaluation requires specialized metrics that assess semantic alignment and joint reasoning capabilities across different data modalities.

  • Ethical AI assessment is a systematic process involving quantitative bias measurement and interpretability analysis using standardized frameworks.

  • Enterprise AI deployment success depends on balancing performance optimization with ethical governance and continuous monitoring.

  • Model interpretability through LIME and SHAP analysis provides transparency essential for responsible AI system deployment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Large Language Modeling
Responsible AI: Transparency & Ethics

Responsible AI: Transparency & Ethics

Course 8, 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify common sources of bias in AI systems and apply tools to assess and mitigate them.

  • Implement explainability methods, such as SHAP and LIME, to interpret and effectively communicate model behavior.

  • Develop a responsible AI checklist aligned with transparency and fairness principles and apply it to AI projects to ensure ethical compliance.

  • Evaluate AI projects for potential ethical risks and ensure alignment with compliance frameworks, such as the NIST AI RMF.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Responsible AI
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Mitigation
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Auditing
Category: Governance
AI Model Risk Management

AI Model Risk Management

Course 9, 2 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Governance Risk Management and Compliance
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Risk Management
Category: Compliance Reporting
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Regulatory Compliance
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Operational Risk
Category: Process Validation
Category: Governance
Category: Legal Risk
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Risk Control
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA)
Category: Compliance Auditing
Category: Auditing
Govern Your GenAI Data Safely

Govern Your GenAI Data Safely

Course 10, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Effective RBAC uses real usage patterns, not assumptions, to ensure access controls match actual workflows and security needs.

  • Governance maturity assessment with frameworks like DAMA-DMBOK provides benchmarks to guide progress and investment decisions.

  • Sustainable data stewardship succeeds with clear ownership, quality standards, and documented procedures that enable accountability .

  • GenAI data governance balances rapid innovation with enterprise security and compliance requirements for responsible adoption .

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Quality
Category: Data Governance
Category: Quality Assurance and Control
Category: Governance
Category: AI Security
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Benchmarking
Category: Generative AI
Category: Data Management
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Security Controls
Category: Accountability
Category: Gap Analysis
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Data Access

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Instructors

Starweaver
Coursera
560 Courses1,107,625 learners
Ritesh Vajariya
Coursera
27 Courses22,689 learners
Brian Newman
Coursera
5 Courses2,194 learners

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