strict: At least one of: BUSN 30135, BUSN 32210, BUSN 35137, BUSN 41204, BUSN 43100 or BUSN 43120
AI is transforming industries, societies, and daily life—offering immense opportunities for innovation but also posing significant challenges. How can business and product leaders ensure AI is designed and deployed in ways that maximize positive impact on users and society?
This course provides practical training and frameworks to build AI products that are responsible and maximize human wellbeing. Through guest speakers, discussions of relevant research, and hands-on exercises and lab work, students will learn how to evaluate when and how AI products can drive social good and mitigate unintended harms.
Students will apply these concepts by working on an AI product—either an existing one to be redesigned for greater positive impact or a new project of their own— throughout the course using the principles learned.
The course will cover both AI products designed explicitly to tackle societal problems (such as access to healthcare, climate change, financial inclusion, etc.), and commercial AI products that while profit driven can be designed in ways that enhance user well-being in relevant dimensions.
