What we teach
Study options for students
The following options are subjects run by CAIDE at the University of Melbourne. These subjects can be taken either as part of an existing degree, such as an undergraduate degree or Masters program, or can be taken as a single subject study through the Community Access Program. This option is for those looking to take one subject for Professional Development or individual learning. For more information about study options that include these subjects please see course advice and enrollment assistance.
Professionals
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Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
This Microcert offers the opportunity to undertake a short online course in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in order to understand the key principles and case studies in this growing field.
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Specialist Certificate
The Specialist Certificate in Law (Digital Law and Technological Innovation) is designed to equip students with the legal knowledge and technical skills needed to navigate the complex ethical, legal and social implications of new technologies.
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Single Subject Study
Interested in a subject offered by CAIDE? Some of our subjects are offered through the University's Community Access Program (also known as single subject study), allowing members of the community to study single subjects for professional development, extending expertise, or pure interest.
Graduate Study
Offered across courses in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, Faculty of Science and Melbourne Law School, these Masters subjects equip students with comprehensive knowledge and training in the thriving field of AI and digital ethics. These courses can be taken as single-subject studies under the Community Access Program.
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Offered as part of the Master of Computer Science, this subject aims to provide students with the necessary tools to identify social and ethical issues of digital technology, and to reason about these issues.
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Science and AI: Ethical & Legal Challenges
This subject is built around a number of uses for AI in the sciences such as novel material discovery, automated experiments and therapeutic devices, which are used to identify ethical and regulatory challenges and responses to them in areas such as liability, beneficence, and privacy.
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AI and Consumer Protection Law
This intensive subject in the Melbourne Law Masters looks at the way laws and policies provide consumer protection as digital technologies change markets and the way consumers interact with them.
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CAIDE Summer Research Academy
Each year CAIDE hosts a Summer Research Academy for PhD and Early Career Researchers to explore issues of AI, Ethics, Law, Regulation and Equity with a cohort from the University of Melbourne and beyond.
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CAIDE PhD Scholarships
CAIDE offers two PhD scholarships per year to domestic (Australian or New Zealand) students looking to pursue graduate research pertaining to AI Ethics.
Undergraduate Study
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AI, Ethics and the Law
This subject employs interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate AI, ethics, and the law. Developing sound ethical, policy and legal responses to AI requires expertise from technical fields such as maths, computer science and engineering, as well as the social sciences such as sociology, psychology, criminology, history, and philosophy.
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Breadth Track
Designed to provide undergraduates with a capacious understanding of the technical, ethical and legal challenges arising from the design, governance and use of AI and Digital Technologies. Students taking this breadth track will graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure the fair, safe and altruistic use of AI and Digital Technologies.
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Internships and Work Integrated Learning
CAIDE has hosted interns from various Faculties since its inception, through Faculty work integrated learning (WIL) subjects. If you are interested in an opportunity to be immersed in the work at CAIDE, speak to a Course Planning adviser to find out whether a WIL subject can be included in your degree.