Research lock: 2026-08-28

This directory replaces the MAI 105 web slideshow. It is an instructor-facing source pack: one standalone Markdown file per week, with a deeper teaching spine, concrete examples, case-study dossiers, seminar prompts, and a visual evidence plan. The application remains responsible for the course pages and live seminar activities; these files are deliberately not another presentation system.

How to use the pack

  1. Start with the teaching spine, then choose two or three cases rather than trying to cover every source.
  2. Open the primary record before the commentary about it. A regulator's order, court decision, paper, model card, or technical standard is the evidentiary anchor.
  3. Use the visual plan as a capture list. Crop to the relevant chart, finding, passage, interface, or diagram; preserve the publisher, title, date, and URL in the frame or caption.
  4. Treat all legal and policy dates as a watch list. The research lock is shown above because AI governance changes quickly.
  5. Do not treat a screenshot as self-interpreting evidence. Every visual has a proposed teaching claim and a warning about what it does not prove.

Week files

  1. Introduction to AI Ethics
  2. Data Ethics & Bias
  3. Algorithmic Fairness
  4. Privacy in the Age of AI
  5. Responsibility & Accountability
  6. Bias in AI
  7. Mid-Course Review
  8. Automation & Labor
  9. AI in Healthcare
  10. Explainable AI
  11. Generative AI
  12. AI Policy & Governance
  13. Capstone & Synthesis

Evidence standard

  • Primary: legislation, judgments, regulator findings, standards, official investigations, first-party incident reports, datasets, and original research.
  • Strong secondary: rigorous investigative reporting or synthesis that exposes its method and links its underlying evidence.
  • Illustrative only: a product page, press article, social post, or marketing screenshot. These can establish what somebody claimed, not whether the claim was true.
  • Case status: distinguish allegation, preliminary ruling, settlement, final decision, recall, and peer-reviewed finding. They are not interchangeable.
  • Visual rights: classroom quotation still benefits from minimal cropping, visible attribution, a source link, and no implication that the source endorses the course.