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AI Governance and Risk Management: Policies, Controls and the EU AI Act

Learn to govern AI use: keep an inventory, classify use cases by risk, write an acceptable-use policy, assess vendors, and apply the EU AI Act and recognized frameworks.

  • Format Online, self-paced
  • Scope 6 modules and a capstone
  • Duration About 8 h
  • Cost Quote on request

About this course

The course explains AI risks and the EU AI Act, how it sits alongside other rules, and how to write policies, run risk assessments, set controls and use frameworks such as the NIST AI RMF. The capstone is an AI governance starter kit for your organization or a case company.

  • Practice on real tasks and an applied assignment
  • Graded final assessment

A certificate that lists the skills is issued when the final assessment is passed and the applied assignment is submitted.

Content

  1. Module 1

    AI Risks and Why Governance Matters

  2. Module 2

    The EU AI Act

  3. Module 3

    The AI Act Alongside Other Rules

  4. Module 4

    Policies and Acceptable Use

  5. Module 5

    Risk Assessment and Controls

  6. Module 6

    Frameworks and Standards

  7. Module 7

    Capstone: An AI Governance Starter Kit

Apply it in a workshop

A half-day with an expert, live online or in person, that puts this course to work on your team's own cases. The course is the pre-work; the workshop is where it gets applied.

Who it is for

  • HR, compliance, IT and risk staff
  • Governance career-changers

Fee and registration

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Price Tell us which Skills courses and how many learners, and we send you a quote. Larger orders get volume pricing, and there is no minimum purchase.
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  2. Add your people

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  3. Assign a license to each learner

    Your admin assigns a license from the pool to each named learner on this course. The learner then has 12 months to complete it, at their own pace.

Education organizations and continuous learning departments: a plan of their own, paid per completion and with learner support, is in preparation. Contact us to discuss your program.

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AI Governance and Risk Management: Policies, Controls and the EU AI Act FAQ

Per learner, per course. You buy Skills course licenses as a pool, on top of your user licenses, and your admin assigns one to a named learner on whichever Skills course they need. A license is used when it is assigned, whether or not the learner finishes.

Skills course licenses are quoted on request. Tell us which courses and how many learners you have in mind, and we send you a quote. Larger orders get volume pricing, and there is no minimum purchase.

Yes, with one license for each course. Licenses come from the same pool, so any license can be assigned to any Skills course, and all the licenses in one order count towards the volume price.

About 8 hours of guided learning, in modules, at the learner's own pace. Access lasts 12 months from the day the license is assigned.

Yes. A certificate that lists the skills is issued when the final assessment is passed and the applied assignment has been submitted.

A piece of real work that puts the skills to use. An employee does it on their own job and team; a learner without a suitable workplace does it on a provided case company. The learner checks it against a rubric, and a manager can review it.

No. Every Skills course stands on its own and restates what it relies on, so a learner can start with it directly.

The course is the same for companies and education organizations. A plan for continuous learning departments, paid per completion and with learner support, is in preparation.

English, at this stage.

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Full table of contents

AI Governance and Risk Management: Policies, Controls and the EU AI Act

7 modules · 24 sections

Module 1 AI Risks and Why Governance Matters

  1. 1.1 Harms: accuracy, bias, privacy, security, intellectual property
  2. 1.2 How AI systems fail: a taxonomy of incidents
  3. 1.3 Where your organization already uses AI
  4. 1.4 Governance roles and accountability

Module 2 The EU AI Act

  1. 2.1 Risk tiers and timelines (check the current status of each obligation, including AI literacy)
  2. 2.2 Prohibited practices and high-risk systems: recognizing them
  3. 2.3 Deployer obligations
  4. 2.4 Transparency duties: telling people when AI is used

Module 3 The AI Act Alongside Other Rules

  1. 3.1 The GDPR: where the two meet
  2. 3.2 Intellectual property, confidentiality and training data
  3. 3.3 Sector rules and contracts: finance, health, the public sector
  4. 3.4 Rules outside the EU, in outline

Module 4 Policies and Acceptable Use

  1. 4.1 What an AI policy covers
  2. 4.2 Approved tools and the approval process
  3. 4.3 Rolling out and training people on it
  4. 4.4 Handling exceptions and violations

Module 5 Risk Assessment and Controls

  1. 5.1 AI inventory and classification
  2. 5.2 Vendor and model assessment
  3. 5.3 Human oversight and documentation
  4. 5.4 Testing, monitoring and incident response for AI systems

Module 6 Frameworks and Standards

  1. 6.1 NIST AI Risk Management Framework: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage
  2. 6.2 An overview of ISO/IEC 42001 AI management systems
  3. 6.3 Data protection impact assessments for AI systems (GDPR Art. 35)
  4. 6.4 Reporting to management and the board

Module 7 Capstone: An AI Governance Starter Kit