Available courses

Foundations of Independent Audit of AI Systems (IAAIS)

This course is required to receive all other ForHumanity Certified Auditor or Expert credentials - please take this course FIRST.

Foundations of Independent Audit of AI Systems explains the inspiration for Independent Audit of AI Systems, including the grounding in financial reporting and accounting.  The course teaches the lexicon of the ecosystem and explains in detail the roles, responsibilities, and accountability of actors in this infrastructure of trust including auditor, governments, individuals, pre-audit services providers, and national accreditation bodies.  Students learn the definitions and implications of important terms like audit, assurance, assessment, and independence.  Earning a certificate in Foundations prepares the learner for advanced courses leading to expert certificates in Risk Management or Algorithm Ethics or  to be certified as a ForHumanity Certified Auditor (FHCA).  This course is a critical first step into the world of algorithmic auditing, compliance satisfaction, regulatory compliance and Independent Audit of AI Systems.

ForHumanity will provide you with an actionable foothold in this burgeoning industry. This course is recorded - for personal pacing. Exams will be offered almost every Friday and those passing will have earned ForHumanity certifications. When the first students pass the GDPR Certification, they will become the world's first certified AI Auditors, an honor that few will share and many will emulate in the coming years. Expert pioneers in this industry will be in high demand.

Implementing AI Literacy

This short course is designed to walk the learner through the ForHumanity AI Literacy resources in order to enable and empower the learner to implement AI Literacy across the 5 personas as applicable to the Scope, Nature, Context, and Purpose of the AAA System.

For each persona, the course will go through the recommended characteristics of training, metrics of success, and applicable learning objectives  and the learner should feel equipped to engage with their AAA System teams (e.g., Algorithmic Risk Committees, Ethics Committees) to collaborate and produce AI Literacy training.

Algorithm Ethics - Ethics Committee Expert Accreditation

Algorithm Ethics teaches students the necessary skills and knowledge to adjudicate instances of Ethical Choice associated with AI, Algorithmic and Autonomous Systems.  A graduate will earn an Expert accreditation and will be well qualified to sit on standing and empowered Ethics Committees.  They will be en expert in understanding, executing and satisfying Independent Audit of AI Systems compliance requirements.

The Class begins on Sept 19, 2022 and will run for 39 classes.  Here is the link to the Live classroom and requires separate registration   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErcemqpz8sHdLMhmTZlhwl17Rpb_8jurFY

CORE AAA Governance

This course requires the learner to have a certificate in Foundations of Independent Audit of AI Systems prior to sitting for the CORE certification exam.

The CORE AAA System Governance FHCA is a ForHumanity Certified Auditor (FHCA) course is the most critical and foundational certification from ForHumanity.  It establishes 16 Core Pillars of governance, oversight, and accountability for AI, Algorithmic, and Autonomous (AAA) Systems.

The Scheme identifies 16 Core Pillars:
💡 Expert Oversight
💡 Top Management Governance, Oversight, Accountability
💡 AAA System Jurisdictional Scope
💡 Training and Education (AI Literacy/Fluency)
💡 Ethical Oversight
💡 Risk Management
💡 Data Management and Governance
💡 Human Oversight and Interactions
💡 Monitoring
💡 Transparency, Disclosure, Explainability
💡 Change Management
💡 Incident Management
💡 Technical Documentation and Record Keeping
💡 Vendor Management
💡 Regulatory Compliance
💡 Decommissioning

The course is 44 lectures long, approximately 22 hrs of study, plus time for the quizzes and the 3 hour certification exam at the end. Learners who pass the certification exam become a ForHumanity Certified Auditor and are eligible through duly licensed organizations to provide advice, consultancy or assure compliance with the CORE commercially

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Live lectures are only available starting on April 22, 2025, and the course lectures will be populated daily.  Asynchronous learning is available immediately, but the course will not be fully populated until June 19th, 2025.  The first exam date will be June 27th, 2025

EU GDPR

EU GDPR ForHumanity Certified Auditor (FHCA) Course is live from February 26th 2024 to March 29 2024.  It is available asynchronously at all times.  Taught by Ryan Carrier, Executive Director of ForHumanity, the course walks students through the details of using the ForHumanity EU GDPR Controller certification scheme to ensure compliance with the scheme.  The course walks you through the Scope of the scheme, defined terms, and each and every individual audit criteria, including the evaluation method.  Students learn the key inputs provided by regulators into the formation of the criteria.  Upon completion, if a student has earned their certificate in Foundations, they will become a ForHumanity Certified Auditor in GDPR.

EU AI Act FHCA

This course will be offered LIVE and Online.  Live classes begin March 6th, 2023
and the live classroom can be accessed here (but attending live in NOT mandatory)
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83346778176?pwd%3DOTEydmtiSWEyN1RqTzNFYWxCaVhpQT09&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1671548041222279&usg=AOvVaw1p2kARcfmXQZO9DqgxQSkm


This course has one pre-requisite - Foundations of Independent Audit of AI Systems

We highly recommend that students be FHCA's in GDPR and have taken 

- Risk Management Framework (as that is founded up the EU AI Act requirements)

- Algorithm Ethics (foundational for understanding the roles and responsibilites of Ethics Committees under the EU AI Act)


This course will train individuals to become ForHumanity Certified Auditors on the EU AI Act.  This means that you will be trained on each and every audit criteria that ForHumanity has established in its work with CEN/CENELEC JTC 21 and will submit to the EU AIDB for approval.

An FHCA on the EU AI Act from ForHumanity will be well equipped to establish a Target of Evaluation and conduct Independent Third Party Audits that will affirm and auditee's conformity with ForHumanity's audit criteria - the highest form of comprehensive compliance with the Act available.  This course will enable auditors, pre-audit service providers (strategy, guidance, capacity building, change management), employees tasked with meeting the demands of EU AI compliance

Cybersecurity FHCA

Cybersecurity FHCA launches on September 2nd, 2025 both LIVE and ASYNCHRONOUSLY.  To be eligible to sit the certification exam, students need to hold their certificate in Foundations of Independent Audit of AI Systems

The course will meet daily starting on Tuesday Sept 29 and run through October 24th (10 hrs of lecture)

The ForHumanity Cybersecurity certification scheme is designed to be a modular augmentation to all ForHumanity Certification schemes (e.g., CORE AAA Governance, EU AI Act) and other schemes require this certification for completion.

This scheme establishes binary, auditable criteria overseen by the AAA Cybersecurity Lead, who reports to the CISO in most organizations.  It is a second-line of defense position that blends intimate knowledge of the AAA System with required AAA System cybersecurity in consideration of enterprise-wide cybersecurity.

India Digital Personal Data Protection FHCA

India DPDPA FHCA launches on October 27th 2025 both LIVE and ASYNCHRONOUSLY.  To be eligible to sit the certification exam, students need to hold their certificate in Foundations of Independent Audit of AI Systems (which may be taken simultaneously)

The course will meet daily starting on Monday October 27th and run through  hrs of lecture)

The ForHumanity DPDPA certification scheme is designed certify AI, Algorithmic, and Autonomous (AAA) System compliance with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act including:

  1. Expert Oversight
  2. Top Management and Oversight Body duties
  3. Relevant Legal Framework and Exemptions
  4. Organisational Controls
  5. Training and Education
  6. Bias Mitigation
  7. Ethical Oversight
  8. Risk Management
  9. Data Management and Governance
  10. Section 4 - Grounds for Processing Personal Data
  11. Section 5 - Notice
  12. Consent
  13. Legitimate Use
  14. General Obligations of a Data Fiduciary
  15. Rights of the Data Principal
  16. International Data Transfers
  17. Data Protection Impact Assessment

This scheme establishes binary, auditable criteria that will benefit Internal compliance efforts, advisors, consultants, technology-solution providers, teachers/trainers and anyone else who would like to understand implementable solutions designed to meet the legal obligations under the law.  This certification scheme is integrated with ForHumanity's global certification schemes such as GDPR, EU AI Act, Cybersecurity, and CORE AAA Governance.

Digital Services Act FHCA

This course will be taught live from Sept 5th at 9:30-10:00am ET/ 3:30-4:00pm CET and will run until October 13th (6 weeks).  Foundations of Independent Audit of AI Systems is a required certificate to earn your FHCA in the Digital Services Act, however that course may be taken asynchronously and concurrently.  It is not necessary to join the live classroom, but you are welcome to do so and to ask brief questions after the recording is completed.

This course is designed for individuals seeking assurance with the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA).  The DSA requires Independent Audit for Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Search Engines (VLOSE).  This course teaches ForHumanity's Digital Services Act certification scheme.  Instructors will walk students through the scope of the scheme, how the Target of Evaluation is identified, critical defined terms, and how associated schemes like the Children's Code (CC) and Disability Inclusion & Accessibility (DI&A) certification schemes are incorporated into ForHumanity's DSA certification scheme.

The course will teach each individual audit criteria so that individuals at organisations will know how to achieve compliance, how pre-audit service providers and auditors will know how to build compliance capacity and subsequently assure compliance and satisfy the law's requirements for Independent Audits.  

The ForHumanity Digital Services Act certification scheme incorporated the Children's Code (CC) and the DI&A schemes.  It is highly recommended that for FULL compliance with the certification scheme a DSA FHCA is also certified under the Children's Code and DI&A , or has those experts amongst the assurance team.  This course will discuss those topics, but not insufficient detail (as covered by FHCA course in CC and DI&A)

Disability Inclusion and Accessibility

This ForHumanity Certified Auditor course will train the student on the required audit criteria governing Equality laws, especially focused on inclusion and accessibility.  Criteria is focused on usability, accessibility, notice, accommodations and general compliance with best practices, standards and legal requirements.  Areas of concentration include bias mitigation, comparability of EU/UK/US equality requirements, stakeholder identification, Diverse inputs and Multi Stakeholder feedback, Algorithm Risk Assessments, Inclusivity Risk Assessments, WCAG conformance and adverse incident reporting.  

A student who completes this course will be well prepared to help organizations build compliance capacity with pre-audit service or as an employee.  Alternatively, a student will become an FHCA and is qualified to provide Independent Audit certification against this audit.  The course will be 18 sessions and will meet daily at 9:30am.  During this live session, we will record the class. Students do NOT need to attend the live sessions.  A link to the live zoom room will be provided in advance of the class and may also be found on the ForHumanity calendar on our webpage https://forhumanity.center

Your teachers will be Bill Curtis-Davidson (Cadmus group and PEAT), Cari Miller (Center for Inclusive Change) and Ryan Carrier, Executive Director - ForHumanity

Children's Code

This course teaches and prepares the student for taking the ForHumanity Certified auditor examination on the Children's Code.  The Children's Code is a UK law governing the interface between Children and the processing of their Personal Data by organisations.  

There is one required course for this class (Foundations in Independent Audit of AI Systems)

There is one recommended course for this class (GDPR).

This course only covers criteria from ForHumanity's Children's Code Certification Scheme.

New York City AEDT Bias Audit FHCA

Pre-Requisite for this course is Foundation of Independent Audit of AI Systems.

This course, taught by Ryan Carrier, FHCA and Shea Brown, ForHumanity Fellow will prepare the student to become a ForHumanity Certified Auditor in the New York City Automated Employment Decision (AEDT) tool Bias Audit.  The course is available asynchronously as the recordings and quizzes are available each day after class.  Students will learn all relevant criteria to becoming an expert in conduct an audit using ForHumanity's NYC AEDT Bias Audit Criteria.  The class covers the scope, lawful basis, relevant definitions, governance/oversight/accountability, disparate impact studies, bias mitigation tests and controls, reporting requirements, training requirements, candidate notices and general risk management assuring compliance with NYC Local Law #144.  An FHCA credential is issued upon completion of the exam.  We expect the class to be useful to the following students: 

1) employees of AEDTs to achieve compliance. 

2 Employers that use AEDTs to know what their responsibilities should be, 

3) pre-audit service providers helps AEDTs and Employers to achieve compliance and prepare for Indendent Audits 

4) Independent Auditors conducting the mandated audits

FH Risk Management Framework certification

Link for the daily classroom for Q2 2022 ForHumanity University

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83532681348?pwd=bmlqSUhtQ01sOGR1VFR6b0dQdG1Ldz09

ForHumanity’s Risk Management Framework for AAA Systems is a comprehensive implementable approach to examining risk associated with all aspects of AI, Algorithmic and Autonomous Systems.  It will include teachings on Risk Foundations, Risk Scope, Risk Taxonomy, Risk Inputs/Indicators, Risk Evaluation, Risk Assessment and Risk Treatment.  It will examine the documentation of Residual Risk and associated disclosures.  We will operationalize all aspects of the RMF including templates for Algorithmic Risk Assessments and the inclusion of Diverse Inputs & Multi stakeholder Feedback.  The class will examine the role of committees, governance structures and the manner in which the RMF plugs into ISO 31000 and traditional ERMs and ORMs.  We will examine four lines of defense including integration with Independent Audit of AI Systems.  When completed the learner can expect to be prepared to install the risk management framework for clients or employers.