Learning outcomes:

By the end of the course, participants will:

• Appreciate the role of robots, artificial intelligence and automation technologies for economies, society and the environment
• Understand the economic fundamentals of robonomics
• Assess the substitution and enhancement effects of automation
• Evaluate the consequences of robonomics
• Formulate solutions to robonomics’ challenges
• Address various ethical issues arising in an automated economy

Indicative content:

• Introduction to Robonomics
• Robots, artificial intelligence and automation technologies
• Economic fundamentals of robonomics
• Drivers of robonomics
• Corporate management in robonomics – marketing, operations, human resource and financial management
• Economic, social, political and environmental aspects of robonomics
• Solutions to the challenges of robonomics
• Technological unemployment and resistance to technological progress
• The robot as a consumer
• Robot-employees and robot-managers
• Sex with robots
• Robot rights
• AI ethics
• Transhumanism

Course duration:
4-12 contact hours (1 contact hour = 45 minutes)

Delivery mode:
Face-to-face, online

Lecturer:
Stanislav Ivanov

Price:
Upon request

NB: * The content and the learning outcomes will be adapted based on the agreed duration of the course.