One track per learner. Learners from different sectors may be in the same cohort — they reunite after Module 7 for assessment. The sector case study completed here also becomes the foundation for the Layer 2 Sector Specialization program.
7A
Sector Track — Corporate & Business
For corporate professionals, team leads, and business managers
🏢 AI hallucination in a national policy draft · South Africa, April 2026 — an international case

The UAE National Strategy for AI 2031, the federal PDPL and the separate DIFC and ADGM regimes, the AI and Data Authority and sector regulators; and the real gaps between the strategy and what is enforceable today. The professionals who wrote it were not careless — they lacked the framework to know when to question AI output.

Learners will be able to:
  • Assess the risk profile of 8 common corporate AI use cases using a structured framework
  • Identify which local regulations (the Personal Data Protection Law, UAE labour and consumer protection law) apply to their AI deployments
  • Evaluate AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, DeepSeek) against corporate risk criteria
  • Present a structured AI judgment recommendation to a board or senior team
EncounterRate 8 corporate AI scenarios: High / Medium / Low risk
ReflectWhere does AI affect decisions in your organisation?
ConceptGenAI tool risk profiles + UAE regulatory exposure
ApplyBoard presentation using the Funda Five™
7B
Sector Track — Government & Public Sector
For civil servants, policy staff, and public service administrators
🏛 SASSA SRD Automated Exclusion · Ongoing

Millions of SASSA Social Relief of Distress grant applications are declined by an automated system with the message "Alternative Income Source Identified" — often incorrectly. Applicants have no clear path to challenge the decision.

Learners will be able to:
  • Identify when automated government decisions require human review under the Personal Data Protection Law Section 71
  • Map the accountability chain for AI-assisted decisions in their department
  • Apply the applicable data protection regime, Federal Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 and public procurement considerations to AI procurement and deployment
  • Design a basic override and escalation protocol for automated decisions
EncounterRead the SASSA SMS — what went wrong?
ReflectWhere does automation affect citizens in your dept?
Conceptthe Personal Data Protection Law, and AI systems now in use across government
ApplyField officer scenario — override or comply?
7C
Sector Track — Finance & Banking
For financial analysts, credit officers, and banking professionals
💰 Credit scoring and structural exclusion · regional

Credit exclusion in the Emirates looks different: a largely expatriate workforce arrives with no local credit history, and free-zone SMEs often have thin filed accounts. A model trained on long domestic credit records scores both as risky when neither may be.

Learners will be able to:
  • Identify proxy discrimination in AI credit and fraud scoring outputs
  • Apply the Central Bank of the UAE’s February 2026 AI guidance — including a customer’s right to ask for human review — to AI-assisted lending decisions
  • Evaluate risk profiles of major regional fintech AI tools (JUMO and comparable regional fintech tools detection)
  • Use the Funda Five™ to decide whether to act on an AI fraud flag
EncounterA loan declined in 4 seconds — what happened?
ReflectWhere do you rely on AI in financial decisions?
ConceptCredit AI tools, the Central Bank of the UAE’s AI guidance
ApplyBank fraud analyst — 47 flags, 8 false positives. Act?
7D
Sector Track — Medical & Healthcare
For clinicians, healthcare administrators, and public health workers
🏥 Mediclinic AI Workforce Restructuring · April 2025

Mediclinic implemented an AI-assisted workforce management system, followed by a hiring freeze and restructuring. After public backlash, the company denied AI was responsible for staffing decisions — while the AI remained in use.

Learners will be able to:
  • Evaluate AI clinical decision support tools using patient safety and equity criteria
  • Apply professional-conduct and medical-device guidance to tool assessment
  • Identify the Personal Data Protection Law obligations for health data processed by AI systems
  • Use the Funda Five™ to decide when to override a clinical AI recommendation
EncounterAnnouncement and denial — what do you believe?
ReflectWhere is AI influencing clinical decisions in your context?
ConceptAidoc, Qure.ai TB screening, professional-conduct and medical-device regulation
ApplyRural district clinic — PRIME CDS recommends. Override?
7E
Sector Track — Education
For educators, school leaders, and education administrators
🎓 UCT Scraps AI Detection Tools · July 2025

UCT formally discontinued Turnitin's AI detection tool after evidence of false positives at significantly higher rates for non-native English speakers — disproportionately affecting African students. The decision followed a wave of contested academic integrity rulings.

Learners will be able to:
  • Evaluate AI detection and learning tools for equity and false positive risk
  • Apply the Personal Data Protection Law obligations for learner data and national qualification-authority accreditation considerations
  • Identify the accountability chain when an AI detection tool flags a student
  • Use the Funda Five™ to assess an edtech platform pitch for their institution
EncounterCheatGPT crisis vs. UCT announcement
ReflectHow is AI shaping integrity decisions in your institution?
ConceptTurnitin and comparable tools, national education and qualification standards
ApplyAbu Dhabi principal — evaluate a UK edtech AI pitch