Beyond Disclaimers:
Applied AI Ethics and Psychosocial Readiness Certification

AI ethics in practice — a five-week course for people who work with AI and want to do it responsibly starting July 22, 2026.

A rigorous, practical course for professionals navigating bias, governance, privacy, and accountability in AI systems — adapted to all levels — no technical background required.

AI adoption is accelerating faster than human understanding. The impacts — both beneficial and harmful — are already here, escalating,  largely unaddressed, and already measurable.

AI is being used to make life-changing decisions in hiring, healthcare, education, criminal justice, finance, and public policy. The professionals building, buying, and overseeing of these systems requires more than technical literacy. They require understanding how ethical safeguards are integrated in every layer of operations.

This five-week course gives you a practical grounding in the core ethical challenges of AI: practical applications to consider the risks that quietly slip into use of systems, how to address it, and what meaningful accountability looks like. This applies to protecting privacy in data-driven environments, how and where biases exist and are being exacerbated, what interaction with AI systems is impacting humans individually and collectively, and how to align governance guidelines and regulations that are continually evolving around the world.

You'll leave with a unique tool, The AI Ethics Alignment Framework (TM), you can apply in your own organization, language to advocate for responsible AI practices, and a network of peers working through the same questions.

This professional certification program is built to go beyond checklists and theory. It develops your ability to adopt AI responsibly while preparing you for future innovation in ways that maximize benefits and reduce the risk of harm.

This is not a self-paced course. It's a guided, cohort-based experience designed to move you from knowledge to credential. Cohorts are capped at 25 participants to ensure every experience is substantive, interactive, and worth your time...knowing it is your most valuable resource.

Over five weeks you'll:

• Attend five 2-hour live online sessions---one/per week

• Be provided with 1–2 hours of curated reading & content between sessions to reinforce and extend your learning.

• Apply The AI Ethics Alignment Framework (TM) 

• Receive a level 1 certification in applied AI ethics

Beyond Disclaimers: Applied AI Ethics & Psychosocial Readiness

The July cohort is limited to 20 participants to keep the community small and the conversations and learning substantive.
Complete the registration (button below) — you'll receive a confirmation within 24 hours with everything you need to get started on July 22

Course dates for Cohort One:

• July 22 

• July 29

• August 5

• August 12

• August 19

Time: 11am-1pm (EST)

Course Fee: $1500 (USD)

Enrollment closes July 19

This course is for professionals who work in, alongside, or in oversight of AI systems — and who want to develop a more rigorous ethical framework for that work. You don't need to write code. You do need to care about getting this right.

• Education professionals

• Product managers and designers building AI-powered products

• Policy, legal, and compliance professionals advising on AI risk

• Healthcare and mental health professionals

• HR and people leaders implementing AI in hiring or performance - Executives and board members with AI governance responsibilities

• Researchers, journalists, and advocates working on AI accountability

• Social community leaders, secular and non-secular

• Anyone in a role where AI decisions affect real people

This course is not a technical AI course. We won't cover machine learning fundamentals, model training, or programming. If that's what you're looking for, this isn't the right fit — but if you're the person who needs to ask hard questions of the people building those systems, you're in exactly the right place.

Your Instructor

Marisa Zalabak is an educational psychologist, AI ethicist with more than three decades of experience spanning education, organizational psychology, and technology ethics. She is Founder and CEO of Open Channel Culture- Human Arts Lab and Co-Founder of the Global Alliance for Digital Education and Sustainability (GADES).

 Within IEEE.org, Marisa has contributed to SSIT standards addressing technology and human wellbeing, serves as Co-Chair of the IEEE AI Ethics Education Committee, and chairs the Global Methodologies Committee for the Planet Positive 2030 initiative. Her work spans AI ethics, digital education, sustainability, human wellbeing, and the future of education and workforce systems. She is an active contributor to global standards bodies, advisory boards, and initiatives advancing responsible, humanity-centered technology — including the Global Digital Compact, UNESCO, UNEP, All Tech Is Human, and K–12 public education systems.

She currently serves as a faculty member of Trocadero Forum Institute, a Resident Fellow with The Digital Economist and is co-leading the IEEE RAISE K-12 pilot as well as collaborations with research teams from NYU, Princeton and Cambridge fostering responsible use of AI in k-12 education and mental health.

Prior to her work in technology, Marisa built an extensive career as leadership strategist in organizational and educational psychology, serving as an adaptive leadership advisor to businesses and educational institutions and a consultant to private-sector organizations. As an educational and instructional designer, she has delivered professional development to thousands of administrators, teachers, support staff, and mental health professionals across more than 500 New York City schools — spanning early childhood through higher education.A specialist in transdisciplinary collaboration and creative intelligence, she has partnered with the CUNY Lincoln Center Institute's Capacities for Imaginative Learning program.

 An international speaker, guest lecturer, and educator on the intersection of technology, ethics, and human development she holds multiple degrees and certifications in Education, Psychology, AI Ethics, Regenerative Design, and Emergent Systems Change.

IEEE SA committees & positions: Wellbeing Metric for Autonomous A/IS Systems (P7010), Ethics Education Committee Co-Chair, Planet Positive 2030 Chair, Global Methodologies Committee, Emulated Empathy Standard Committee (P7014), Smart Cities Standard Committee (P7803), Global Artificial Intelligence Systems Flourishing Initiative, and an upcoming standard on AI Readiness (in P7000 Series).