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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
This seminar will explore how AI may impact our ethical decision-making as CPAs and how to implement safeguards to maintain the public’s trust.
The Alignment problem, popularized by Brian Christian’s book by the same name, refers to the problem created by AI solutions such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard not having the same values as humans. AI produces outcomes based on its programming and big data. However, those outcomes may not be aligned with our ethical values.
AI will no doubt be an integral part of professional lives. However, as we move at lightning speed to integrate AI solutions as CPAs, the effect of these solutions on our ethical decision-making and professional judgement is critical to understand.
For the CPA Profession, we must grapple with how this technology will integrate with our highly valued skill sets, including:
- Ethical decision making
- Professional judgement
- Trust and leadership
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
- Define artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning.
- Define generative AI.
- Define the alignment problem.
- Define ethical decision making.
- Describe at least two examples of the alignment problem.
- Identify how AI is and will be applied in our profession.
- Identify the ethical challenges posed by AI to our profession.
- Employ safeguards to ethical decision-making when using AI solutions.
Who Will Benefit
The course will benefit professionals seeking to identify challenges to our ethical decision-making in using AI and employing safeguards to maintain the public’s trust.
CPA Ontario AI Paper
In our thought leadership paper, Trust in New Frontiers: Putting AI Governance into Practice we examine how CPAs, guided by technical expertise and high ethical standards, can lead the charge in strengthening AI governance and building public trust.
Discover how CPAs can champion responsible AI governance and help organizations to embrace AI with confidence and integrity.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Garth Sheriff, CPA, CA, CPA (Illinois), CIA, CGMA, MAcc the founder of Sheriff Consulting and provides continuing professional development (CPD) courses in areas of leadership, communication, and assurance. Garth has worked as an assurance professional and learning provider for over 20 years. He has also acted in various stage and film productions and is a graduate in improvisation from The Second City and a proud member of ACTRA.