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Mid-Course Review

The architecture of ethical analysis

Can you turn seven weeks of concepts into one repeatable audit practice?

A full workshop week: teams integrate technical evidence, ethical frameworks, stakeholders, law, uncertainty, pre-mortems, and an ethical matrix into the capstone method.

Join the live room

Before class

Bring a capstone candidate and a one-page system boundary: purpose, actors, data, model, workflow, affected parties, and current controls.

After class

Submit the revised system boundary, first ethical matrix, and top five pre-mortem failures.

The promise

By the end of this room…

01Run the course's ethical-analysis sequence end to end.
02Build a stakeholder × principle ethical matrix.
03Conduct a pre-mortem and prioritize failures by severity and likelihood.
04Distinguish a claim, its evidence, uncertainty, owner, and remedy.

Why this week now

Signals, not scene-setting.

Good audits connect evidence to governance decisions rather than accumulating principles.

A pre-mortem protects against the success narrative becoming the only scenario the team can imagine.

The capstone is an adversarial defense, so uncertainty and counter-evidence are first-class artifacts.

Run of show

Provoke → frame → work → argue → synthesize.

Open student room ↗

0:00
provocation
Commit before the concepts
Which layer most often makes an AI audit fail?
Live activity · week 7 opening
0:15
frame
From principle list to audit trail
Good audits connect evidence to governance decisions rather than accumulating principles.
0:45
discussion
Reading tension
Student leaders present the assigned readings as a clash of defensible positions, then moderate questions that expose the hidden assumptions.
1:10
frame
SMACTR, ethical matrix, pre-mortem
A pre-mortem protects against the success narrative becoming the only scenario the team can imagine.
1:35
break
Break
Ten minutes. Leave the room's unresolved question visible.
1:45
forensics
Clearview synthesis speed round
Role-based groups work the anchor case through technical, legal, stakeholder, and normative lenses.
Deliverable · A two-minute finding with evidence, uncertainty, and an actionable remedy.Live activity · week 7 forensics
2:25
controversy
Capstone red-team clinic
Assigned positions, side-switch, and a joint recommendation that names the value or stakeholder it leaves exposed.
Live activity · week 7 controversy
2:50
synthesis
Re-vote and leave a trace
Repeat the opening vote, inspect what moved, and submit the strongest argument you still reject.
Live activity · week 7 exit