Responsible AI Professional Certification
Lead with ethics in an AI-first world.
⚠️ Limited to 30 participants | Early bird pricing ends April 15, 2026
Every organization is deploying AI. Most are doing it without governance frameworks, without ethics training, without asking the hard questions.
The organizations that will lead aren't the ones with the fastest models. They're the ones with people who know how to assess risks, apply frameworks, and navigate complexity before deployment.
RAP Certification for AI Professionals & Practioners
RAP (Responsible AI Professional) is a 4-week certification program for leaders, executives, and practitioners who need to understand, implement, and govern responsible AI practices.
Not academic theory. Not vendor sales pitches. Not another ethics course that stops at principles.
You'll work through real scenarios. Apply global frameworks (UNESCO, OECD, NIST, IEEE). Build artifacts you'll use in your actual work. Walk away with a custom Ethics Practice Assistant trained on your own analysis.
This isn't about learning to talk about AI ethics. It's about building a practice.
Syllabus
Week 1: Foundations — Understanding AI and Its Limits
Theme: Technical Grounding + The Accuracy Problem
How AI systems actually work (demystifying the technology)
The confidence-accuracy gap: Why AI sounds right when it's wrong
Hallucinations and confabulation: When inaccuracy is annoying vs. dangerous
Global ethics frameworks: UNESCO, OECD, NIST, IEEE
Artifact: Personal AI Inventory - Document your systems and assess accuracy risks
Week 2: Core Ethics - Bias, Privacy, and Ownership
Theme: The Three Pillars
Bias & Prediction: Identify algorithmic bias, understand fairness definitions
Privacy: Data collection, consent, surveillance economy
Copyright & Creative Work: Who owns AI inputs and outputs?
Artifact: Ethics Assessment - Apply bias, privacy, and copyright frameworks to a real system
Week 3: Societal Impact - Deployment, Labor, and Environment
Theme: Systems Thinking
Deployment Ethics: When is AI ready? When should it never be used?
Labor & Work: Displacement, augmentation, worker surveillance
Environmental Impact: The carbon cost of computation
Artifact: Deployment Checklist - Evaluate deployment readiness for an AI system
Week 4: The Human Element: Authenticity, Relationships, and Meaning
Theme: Human Values
Authenticity: Deepfakes, synthetic media, trust erosion
Social Life: Human-AI relationships, parasocial dynamics, vulnerable populations
The Human Spirit: Creativity, agency, meaning in an AI age
Artifact: Ethics Impact Assessment - Comprehensive framework application
You're in the right place if you:
Lead AI initiatives: You're overseeing AI deployments and need governance frameworks that actually work, not just policy documents that sit in a drawer.
Budget for your own development: You're an executive or senior professional who invests in capability building. You're not waiting for your employer to figure out what training matters.
Are in career transition: You have severance funds earmarked for upskilling, or you're pivoting into AI governance, or you're differentiating yourself as an AI practitioner who understands ethics.
Want to build a practice, not just get a credential: You're not here to add a line to your resume. You're here to walk away with frameworks, artifacts, and a custom AI assistant that helps you apply what you've learned.
What You'll Walk Away With
1. RAP Certification
Completion of all assessments, practical exercises, and final capstone. Globally applicable, grounded in multiple frameworks (not just one jurisdiction or perspective).
2. Personal Ethics Practice Assistant
A Custom GPT trained on your coursework artifacts. It knows how you think, the frameworks you've applied, the systems you've analyzed. It's your ongoing practice partner after the program ends.
3. Four Practical Artifacts
Personal AI Inventory (your landscape map)
Ethics Assessment (your analysis methodology)
Deployment Checklist (your readiness criteria)
Ethics Impact Assessment (your comprehensive framework)
4. Professional Network
Alumni join BC + AI's professional community. Monthly office hours, special interest groups, ongoing education. This isn't a one-time course - it's an entry point into a network.
💰 MEMBERSHIP MATH (READ THIS FIRST)
BC + AI members save $750 on this certification.
BC + AI membership costs $340/year.
Join BC + AI first → Save $750 on RAP → Net $410 in your pocket
Plus you get:
→ Friday office hours (every week, forever)
→ Discord community access (850+ members)
→ Vancouver AI meetup priority
→ All future BC+AI certification discounts
Step 1: Join BC+AI membership ($340) → bc-ai.ca
Step 2: Register for RAP at member price ($750)
Step 3: Save $410 and feel smart about it