CERTIFIED ETHICAL EMERGING TECHNOLOGIST (CEET)

To ensure your success in this course, you should have a genuine interest in ensuring that emerging technologies are ethical, trusted, and inclusive. It may also be helpful if you have an understanding of concepts related to emerging technologies. Practical experience implementing data science, AI, and/or IoT to solve business problems is encouraged but not required.

Advances in computing and engineering are driving technological progress, from blockchain and AI to gene editing and IoT, offering opportunities for productivity and human well-being. Yet, these innovations also bring new risks, as recent scandals highlight. Technology professionals face increasing pressure to address ethical concerns, balancing privacy, accuracy, fairness, and safety. This course provides practical tools to manage ethical risks in emerging data-driven technologies, drawing from theory, regulations, and industry practices. Learners will gain skills to navigate ethical dilemmas in their roles and organizations.

Target Audience

This course caters to technology leaders, solution developers, project managers, organizational decision-makers, and others aiming to showcase a vendor-neutral, industry-spanning comprehension of ethics in emerging data-driven technologies like AI, robotics, IoT, and data science.

Additionally, it's tailored for professionals interested in pursuing the CertNexus Certification Exam CET-110: Certified Ethical Emerging Technologies.

Course Objectives

Throughout this course, you'll integrate ethics into data-driven technologies like AI, IoT, and data science. You'll:

- Discuss fundamental concepts, theories, and dilemmas concerning ethics and emerging technologies.
- Recognize ethical risks.
- Apply ethical reasoning.
- Address safety and security risks.
- Manage privacy risks.
- Tackle fairness and bias concerns.
- Handle transparency and explainability challenges.
- Address accountability issues.
- Foster an ethical organizational culture.
- Implement ethical systems within technology-oriented organizations.

Lesson 1: Introduction to Ethics of Emerging Technologies

• Topic A: What’s at Stake
• Topic B: Ethics and Why It Matters
• Topic C: Ethical Decision-Making in Practice
• Topic D: Causes of Ethical Failures

Lesson 2: Identifying Ethical Risks

• Topic A: Ethical Reasons
• Topic B: Stumbling Blocks for Ethical Reasoning
• Topic C: Identify Ethical Risks in Product Development
• Topic D: Tools for Identifying Ethical Risks
• Topic E: Use Regulations, Standards, and Human Rights to Identify Ethical Risks

Lesson 3: Ethical Reasoning in Practice

• Topic A: Ethical Theories
• Topic B: Use Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks
• Topic C: Select Options for Action
• Topic D: Avoid Problems in Ethical Decision-Making

Lesson 4: Identifying and Mitigating Security Risks

• Topic A: What Is Security?
• Topic B: Identify Security Risks
• Topic C: Security Tradeoffs
• Topic D: Mitigate Security Risks

Lesson 5: Identifying and Mitigating Privacy Risks

• Topic A: What Is Privacy?
• Topic B: Identify Privacy Risks
• Topic C: Privacy Tradeoffs
• Topic D: Mitigate Privacy Risks

Lesson 6: Identifying and Mitigating Fairness and Bias Risks

• Topic A: What Are Fairness and Bias?
• Topic B: Identify Bias Risks
• Topic C: Fairness Tradeoffs
• Topic D: Mitigate Bias Risks

Lesson 7: Identifying and Mitigating Transparency and Explainability Risks

• Topic A: What Are Transparency and Explainability?
• Topic B: Identify Transparency and Explainability Risks
• Topic C: Transparency and Explainability Tradeoffs
• Topic D: Mitigate Transparency and Explainability Risks

Lesson 8: Identifying and Mitigating Accountability Risks

• Topic A: What Is Accountability?
• Topic B: Identify Accountability Risks
• Topic C: Accountability Tradeoffs
• Topic D: Mitigate Accountability Risks

Lesson 9: Building an Ethical Organization

• Topic A: What Are Ethical Organizations?
• Topic B: Organizational Purpose
• Topic C: Ethics Awareness
• Topic D: Develop Professional Ethics within Organizations

Lesson 10: Developing Ethical Systems in Technology-Focused Organizations

• Topic A: Policy and Compliance
• Topic B: Metrics and Monitoring
• Topic C: Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
• Topic D: Ethical Leadership

Appendix A: Mapping Course Content to Exam CET-110: Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist Certification Objectives