Societal and Strategic Impacts

This unit examines how agentic AI and evolving AI platforms affect healthcare, economics, geopolitics, privacy, security, entertainment, and global trends. Students synthesize those impacts, compare traditional and agentic systems, and develop a practical risk assessment framework that informs user experience design—building on foundational concepts from earlier units and preparing learners for applied design and implementation in the final unit.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the potential impacts of agentic AI on healthcare, individual well-being, entertainment, and investment opportunities using targeted case studies to identify user needs and system-level consequences
• Evaluate geopolitical, privacy, and security considerations for deploying agentic AI platforms by applying threat modeling and relevant regulatory criteria to real-world scenarios
• Assess the evolution from traditional AI to agentic systems and determine the implications for user experience design by comparing architectures, interaction patterns, and ethical concerns
• Design and apply a risk assessment and mitigation framework for agentic AI deployments that prioritizes user safety, ethical trade-offs, and continuity of service, producing actionable recommendations for a provided scenario