Welcome to the AI Ethics course!
欢迎来到 AI 伦理课程！
AI increasingly has an impact on everything from social media to healthcare. AI is used to make credit card decisions, to conduct video surveillance in airports, and to inform military operations. These technologies have the potential to harm or help the people that they serve. By applying an ethical lens, we can work toward identifying the harms that these technologies can cause to people and we can design and build them to reduce these harms - or decide not to build them.
AI 越来越影响从社交媒体到医疗保健等各个领域。AI 用于做出信用卡决策、在机场进行视频监控以及为军事行动提供信息。这些技术有可能伤害或帮助它们所服务的人。通过运用道德视角，我们可以努力识别这些技术可能对人们造成的危害，我们可以设计和构建它们以减少这些危害 - 或者决定不构建它们。
This course has no prerequisites, and we don’t assume any programming background.
本课程没有先决条件，我们不要求任何编程背景。
Your instructors Var Shankar (who has worked on AI ethics in industry) and Alexis Cook (who has designed and trained AI models) have collaborated to build this applied and practical course. In the exercises, you will run code to train and investigate AI models. If you are already on a team developing AI products and don’t know where to start, we provide actionable suggestions.
您的讲师 Var Shankar（曾从事行业 AI 伦理研究）和 Alexis Cook（曾设计和训练 AI 模型）合作建立了这门应用和实践课程。在练习中，您将运行代码来训练和调查 AI 模型。如果您已经加入开发 AI 产品的团队，但不知道从哪里开始，我们会提供可行的建议。
This course covers several topics:
本课程涵盖几个主题：
- In the human-centered design lesson, you’ll learn how to design an AI system to ensure that it serves the needs of the people that it is intended for.
- 在 以人为本的设计 课程中，您将学习如何设计 AI 系统，以确保它能够满足目标人群的需求。
- In the bias lesson, you’ll determine how AI systems can learn to discriminate against certain groups.
- 在 偏见 课程中，您将确定 AI 系统如何学会歧视某些群体。
- In the fairness lesson, you’ll learn to quantify the extent of the bias in AI systems.
- 在 公平 课程中，您将学习如何量化 AI 系统中偏见的程度。
- In the model cards lesson, you’ll learn how to use a popular framework for improving public accountability for AI models.
- 在 模型卡 课程中，您将学习如何使用流行的框架来提高 AI 模型的公共责任感。
As the field of AI evolves, so does AI ethics. As a wise friend once told us, “Ethics is a conversation.” This course can help you start that conversation, but not finish it. Some topics that we do not cover include: AI’s potential impact on the digital technology divide between the rich and the poor, on jobs, and on the capabilities of authoritarian governments, among others. That said, throughout the course, we recommend next steps for continuing your learning and following the ethical conversation as it continues to evolve.
随着 AI 领域的发展，AI 伦理也在不断发展。正如一位聪明的朋友曾经告诉我们的那样， “道德是一种对话。” 本课程可以帮助您开始对话，但不能结束对话。我们没有涵盖的一些主题包括：人工智能对贫富之间的数字技术鸿沟、就业以及独裁政府能力的潜在影响等。尽管如此，在整个课程中，我们建议您采取下一步措施继续学习，并关注不断发展的道德对话。
Get started!
开始吧！
Ready to start the course? Learn about human-centered design in the next tutorial!
准备好开始课程了吗？在下一个教程中了解以人为本的设计！