Building a Competent AI Ethics Workforce: Opportunities and Challenges to Define, Teach, Measure, and Build

Monday, October 27, 2025 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

Hybrid event
6010, Nicol, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
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Jaclyn Legge, jaclyn.legge@carleton.ca

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Abstract

Complex AI systems are reshaping the world of business, including finance, healthcare, medicine, government, and law. This technological force has created profound, unparalleled, and unchartered governance and ethical challenges for organizations and governments. AI ethics provides guiding principles to ensure technology is developed, deployed, and governed responsibly by mitigating inherent risks. Canada leads the US and the world in the number of AI job postings that include keywords related to ethics, such as “Responsible AI” and “AI Ethicist”. This research identifies global challenges, with a focus on Canada, to meet the growing demand for AI ethics and compliance professionals.

Presenter’s Biography

Dr. Uma Gupta is the Director of the Master of Science in Analytics (MSBA) program at the George Dean Johnson College of Business at the University of South Carolina Upstate. Dr. Gupta is a second-time Fulbright scholar. In 2025, she was the sole recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Research Chair Fulbright award at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses on AI Ethics and the implications of building a competent AI workforce that is prepared to address the ethical challenges that AI poses.

She holds a PhD in industrial engineering, an MBA from the University of Central Florida, and a graduate degree in mathematics. She has authored more than one hundred refereed journal research papers at the intersection of technology, business, and ethics and has edited a book on AI and expert systems, another book on Data Governance, and has authored several textbooks in information systems.

Dr. Gupta has won many awards including the Top Ten Influential Women in Technology in Houston and the Women of Distinction Award by the Girl Scouts of Western New York.

She is also the CEO of Babbage-AI consulting, an AI training firm. Her life’s motto: Your happiness is the greatest measure of your success.