Professional Responsibility in the Age of AI.

Clarify your ethical stance and accountability in AI-mediated work.

AI-powered systems are increasingly involved in how work is performed, decisions are made, and value is generated. Yet responsibility does not disappear when systems automate part of the process.

This module supports you in understanding AI as a socio-technical and political force: one that redistributes power, shapes incentives, and influences society, ecosystems, and economic structures.

Rather than focusing on compliance or abstract ethics, you will clarify your own professional responsibility:

• Where does your accountability begin and end?

• What are your red lines?

• How do you act responsibly when speed, efficiency, or pressure push in other directions?

This module develops political awareness at the level of professional practice.

What you walk away with

• A clear personal stance on working with AI

• Defined professional red lines and responsibility boundaries

• Greater confidence navigating ethical grey zones

• A Personal AI Responsibility Charter

How it works

You will:

• Map how AI already influences your professional context

• Analyse power and accountability shifts

• Understand what is and what is not sustainable AI

• Reflect on stakeholder impact (clients, colleagues, society, environment)

• Articulate personal principles for responsible AI use

• Develop language to defend responsible decisions

This is a facilitated, reflective, and applied session grounded in real professional situations.

Duration

Online: 2 × 2-hour sessions
On-site: 1 full day

Why this course is essential

We are at a technological crossroads. AI adoption is accelerating, and opting out is rarely possible. But abdicating responsibility is not inevitable.

Without conscious reflection, professionals risk:

• outsourcing judgment

• externalising hidden social or ecological costs

• reinforcing power asymmetries unintentionally

This module ensures you remain an agent, not a passive operator, in systems that shape collective outcomes.

For whom

This course is designed for experienced professionals whose value lies in judgment, interpretation, and responsibility, not routine execution.

Typically, participants are:

• Mid- to senior-level professionals

• Consultants, managers, strategists, designers, researchers, educators, advisors

• People working at the intersection of expertise and decision-making

• Professionals accountable for outcomes, not just outputs

They often operate in roles where they:

• interpret complexity

• translate between stakeholders

• shape strategy or direction

• design systems, policies, or processes

• influence decisions that affect people, resources, or long-term value

If Your Question is:

“How do I remain responsible, relevant, and impactful in a system being reshaped by AI?”

Then this course is for you.

• You are not a technologist and are not interested in “AI hacks”.

• You want to move beyond the AI Hype and the AI Fear.

• You are uneasy with uncritical automation

• You value professional integrity and long-term sustainability

• You want to shape technology’s role in your work, not simply comply with it

• You see your career as a trajectory of meaning and contribution, not just employability

This course is for professionals who want to remain authors of their work, and agents in shaping AI’s place in society, rather than passive adopters of technological change.

THIS WORKSHOP IS OFFERED AS A STAND ALONE OR AVAILABLE AS PART OF A LARGER AI GOVERNANCE PROGRAMME, “Working Responsibly with AI“, DEDICATED TO INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONALS WHO CARE ABOUT THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.