Self-paced / 6–8 hours / Free
Governing AI in Public Services
Make better decisions about real deployments.
Assess an AI proposal, ask better procurement questions, design meaningful oversight and decide when to launch, change or stop a public-service deployment.
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Public-service teams, commissioners, policy professionals and people scrutinising public-sector AI.
Before you begin
Basic familiarity with AI. You can take this course independently of AI Policy in Practice. No technical background required.
What you’ll make
A deployment assurance pack and a go / conditional go / no-go recommendation for a fictional council service.
The full curriculum
Learn the method.
Practise the judgment.
Read, apply, check and reflect. Each lesson includes an exercise, worked answer and knowledge checks. Read the selected sections, work through the fictional evidence packet and explain a decision before comparing with the example. Most time is spent on the exercises, not reading the lesson text.
UK-led practical cases, with international frameworks and research. For another jurisdiction, replace the institutional and legal assumptions; this course is not a comprehensive survey of global AI policy.
Edition 2026-10-13 · reviewed edition · Time estimates include teaching, selected external readings, case exercises and the capstone; pace will vary.
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