Embedding AI Impact Assessment into Undergraduate Education

Dr Erica Mealy (UniSC) and James Gauci (Cadent) share how they embedded ISO 42005 - the international standard for AI impact assessment - into an undergraduate computer science course, pairing academic teaching with hands-on industry expertise. Drawing on James's work as one of Australia's first IEEE-trained AI ethics assessors, the session walks through the case study: what it looked like in practice, what worked, and what they would do differently. The takeaway is a practical model for giving students a repeatable, standards-based framework for assessing AI impact before they reach the workforce.