Course Description
This micro-course equips teams to recognise, assess, and respond to AI risks across everyday workflows and products. You’ll learn a repeatable approach to risk identification and classification, run AI Risk Impact Assessments (AIRIA), and translate policy into practical guardrails and controls. The course ends with incident response and harm-mitigation techniques that satisfy stakeholders and align with emerging regulation.
Who Should Take This Course
Ideal for managers, team leads, product owners, risk & compliance professionals, data/IT practitioners, HR, operations, and legal—anyone responsible for safe, compliant, and effective AI use in their organisation. Suitable for both technical and non-technical roles.
Prerequisites
No prior experience needed. Helpful: basic familiarity with your organisation’s processes and current or planned AI tool use.
What You Will Learn
- How to surface and classify AI risks by context, data, model, user, and impact
- How to run an AI Risk Impact Assessment (AIRIA) and document mitigations and residual risk
- How to operationalise policy with pragmatic guardrails and controls (access, prompts, reviews, logging, monitoring)
- How to design incident triggers, escalation paths, and comms templates for AI-related issues
- How to build a lightweight risk register and control checklist tailored to your organisation