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Building Trustworthy AI Specialization

Build Secure, Ethical, and Governed AI Systems. Learn AI security, ethics, and governance to deploy trustworthy systems in production.

Starweaver
Ritesh Vajariya
Brian Newman

Instructors: Starweaver

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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Identify and mitigate AI-specific security threats across the MLOps lifecycle using industry frameworks like MITRE ATLAS

  • Design and implement ethical AI systems with explainability, fairness metrics, and comprehensive governance frameworks

  • Create enterprise-grade risk management and monitoring systems for continuous AI validation and regulatory compliance

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Specialization - 10 course series

What you'll learn

  • Identify and classify various classes of attacks targeting AI systems.

  • Analyze the AI/ML development lifecycle to pinpoint stages vulnerable to attack.

  • Apply threat mitigation strategies and security controls to protect AI systems in development and production.

Skills you'll gain

Category: AI Security
Category: Model Deployment
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Security Controls
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Security Testing
Category: Vulnerability Assessments
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Data Security
Category: MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Category: Application Lifecycle Management

What you'll learn

  • Analyze and evaluate AI inference threat models, identifying attack vectors and vulnerabilities in machine learning systems.

  • Design and implement comprehensive security test cases for AI systems including unit tests, integration tests, and adversarial robustness testing.

  • Integrate AI security testing into CI/CD pipelines for continuous security validation and monitoring of production deployments.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Security Testing
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: AI Security
Category: Continuous Integration
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Scripting
Category: Threat Detection
Category: DevOps
Category: Test Case
Category: DevSecOps
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Application Security
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Integration Testing
Category: MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Category: Unit Testing
Category: CI/CD
Category: System Monitoring

What you'll learn

  • Create comprehensive documentation and conduct ethical evaluations of large language model systems to ensure responsible AI deployment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Auditing
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Compliance Auditing
Category: Accountability
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Mitigation
Category: Case Studies
Category: Technical Documentation
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Responsible AI
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Data Quality

What you'll learn

  • Ethical AI needs proactive bias measurement and fairness checks across demographics to prevent reinforcing societal inequalities.

  • AI success relies on mapping technical initiatives to business goals, continuously assessing ROI and feasibility.

  • Scalable AI operations require governance structures, best practices, clear accountability, and cross-functional collaboration

  • Responsible AI deployment balances innovation with ethics using technical guardrails and evolving organizational frameworks

Skills you'll gain

Category: Governance
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Business Management
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: Scalability
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Decision Making
Category: Data Governance
Category: Technology Roadmaps
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Enterprise Architecture
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Cross-Functional Collaboration

What you'll learn

  • Performance monitoring is essential for maintaining AI system reliability and fairness across diverse user populations

  • Technical architecture decisions (fine-tuning vs RAG) require systematic evaluation of costs, capabilities, and maintenance requirements

  • Effective AI governance requires proactive policy creation, technical guardrails, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure responsible deployment

  • Sustainable AI operations depend on establishing measurable quality benchmarks and continuous feedback loops

Skills you'll gain

Category: Governance
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Governance Risk Management and Compliance
Category: Compliance Management
Category: AI Security
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Quality Assessment
Category: Gap Analysis
Category: Content Performance Analysis
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Category: Risk Management
Category: Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Category: Cost Benefit Analysis
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Generative AI
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Performance Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Learners will apply reinforcement learning to design and validate reward functions while analyzing ethical and societal implications of AI decisions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Due Diligence
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Algorithms
Category: Reinforcement Learning
Category: Policy Development
Category: Regulatory Compliance
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Policy Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Cross-modal evaluation requires specialized metrics that assess semantic alignment and joint reasoning capabilities across different data modalities.

  • Ethical AI assessment is a systematic process involving quantitative bias measurement and interpretability analysis using standardized frameworks.

  • Enterprise AI deployment success depends on balancing performance optimization with ethical governance and continuous monitoring.

  • Model interpretability through LIME and SHAP analysis provides transparency essential for responsible AI system deployment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Ethics
Category: Multimodal Prompts
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: AI Enablement
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Generative AI
Category: Governance

What you'll learn

  • Identify common sources of bias in AI systems and apply tools to assess and mitigate them.

  • Implement explainability methods, such as SHAP and LIME, to interpret and effectively communicate model behavior.

  • Develop a responsible AI checklist aligned with transparency and fairness principles and apply it to AI projects to ensure ethical compliance.

  • Evaluate AI projects for potential ethical risks and ensure alignment with compliance frameworks, such as the NIST AI RMF.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Mitigation
Category: Governance
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: OpenAI
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Auditing
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: AI Enablement
AI Model Risk Management

AI Model Risk Management

Course 9 1 hour

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Governance Risk Management and Compliance
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Regulatory Requirements
Category: Process Validation
Category: Gap Analysis
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: Risk Control
Category: Auditing
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: AI Security
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Compliance Auditing
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Business Risk Management
Category: Risk Management
Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Category: Governance
Govern Your GenAI Data Safely

Govern Your GenAI Data Safely

Course 10 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Effective RBAC uses real usage patterns, not assumptions, to ensure access controls match actual workflows and security needs.

  • Governance maturity assessment with frameworks like DAMA-DMBOK provides benchmarks to guide progress and investment decisions.

  • Sustainable data stewardship succeeds with clear ownership, quality standards, and documented procedures that enable accountability .

  • GenAI data governance balances rapid innovation with enterprise security and compliance requirements for responsible adoption .

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Governance
Category: Data Quality
Category: Compliance Management
Category: Governance
Category: Data Access
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: AI Security
Category: Metadata Management
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Benchmarking
Category: Data Security
Category: Generative AI
Category: Quality Assurance and Control
Category: Data Management
Category: Security Controls

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Instructors

Starweaver
Coursera
525 Courses 956,387 learners
Ritesh Vajariya
Coursera
25 Courses 13,221 learners
Brian Newman
Coursera
5 Courses 1,247 learners

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