Applied AI NL
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Ethics

Ethical considerations in data and AI: fairness, transparency and societal impact — in every module.

Why this module

Why this matters

Every AI application affects people: in what they get to see, how they are assessed, which opportunities they are given. That is why ethics is not a separate Friday-afternoon module, but a learning strand that runs through everything.

You learn ethics as a craft: not just holding the view that things should be fair, but making trade-offs explicit, recording them and defending them — even when that clashes with speed or profit.

Content

What you will learn

Application

Directly in your practice

In every module and every project you make the ethical considerations explicit — they are a standard part of what you deliver.

Dilemma session

Your team weighs a real case: more efficient selection versus the risk of excluding groups.

Ethics section

Every project deliverable includes a justification: which choices, which trade-offs, which limits.

Organising dissent

You learn how to keep the critical question on the table in an enthusiastic project.

How you work

Learning alongside your job

You take this module the way you take the whole programme: classes every other week on Friday and Saturday, with a study load of 15–20 hours per week, of which 10–15 hours is self-study. The teaching is a mix of classroom lessons, practice-based learning, blended learning and working groups or study teams — taught by lecturers who practise the profession themselves on a daily basis.

You conclude each theme with a professional product or a technical solution addressing a real situation in your own work, which you discuss in an assessment with the lecturer. That way your portfolio grows with real work — and your employer benefits directly.

By the end, you make ethical considerations explicit and open to discussion — and you uphold them under pressure.

Questions about this module?

Want to know whether this suits you?

Email or call the programme — we will gladly help you think it through.