Independent · Boutique · Applied

An independent institute
for applied AI ethics.

Ethical questions in practice emerge across a wider system shaped by infrastructure investments, compute demand, product incentives, design decisions, governance mechanisms, and institutional constraints. What is commonly labeled "ethics" captures only a narrow slice of this landscape.

The AI Ethics Institute examines how decisions across these layers interact. Small cohorts. Case-based inquiry. No institutional agenda. No sponsored curriculum.

The curriculum draws on four sources: industry practice, design thinking methodology, academic research, and civil society work.

That combination is the methodology.

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Est. 2024
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Three programs. One analytical commitment.

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Why an independent institute.

The field of AI ethics has expanded faster as a category than as a practice. Frameworks multiply. Commitments accumulate. Their relationship to actual decisions remains uneven.

The AI Ethics Institute exists to examine that gap with rigor and without an agenda. The AI Ethics Institute is independently designed and delivered. No institutional agenda. No sponsored curriculum. Participation supports the continuation of independent research and teaching.

The work is small by design. Cohorts stay limited so that inquiry stays genuine. The goal is not consensus, and not certification. It is sharper thinking about decisions that are already being made.

3Programs
18Per Cohort
4Analytical Lenses
2024Established

The institute is led by Asma Derja.

The AI Ethics Institute was founded to bring industry practice, design thinking, academic research, and civil society work into the same room. Programs are delivered in small cohorts, drawing on case material rather than abstraction.

Teaching contexts have included Imperial College London and IED Barcelona. The institute's methodology is shaped by years of practice across technology, governance, and civil society.

Asma Derja
Founder · Civil Society Leader · Ex Tech Executive
Ethical AI Alliance · Stanford d.school
Ethical AI Alliance Stanford d.school Imperial College London IED Barcelona
Asma Derja, Founder
Asma Derja · Founder

For institutions and teams.

The institute delivers private cohorts for organizations that need their teams to reason about AI decisions with the same rigor applied to the open programs. Engagements are scoped to the institution's own cases.

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The AI Ethics Institute is independently designed and delivered. No institutional agenda. No sponsored curriculum. Participation supports the continuation of independent research and teaching.

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