Your team already uses AI on customer, staff and supplier data. This self-paced course teaches you to say yes to the right uses, keep personal data safe, check for unfair outcomes and handle the first hour when something leaks. You learn the 2026 rules at principle level (the EU AI Act after the AI Omnibus, the GDPR, India’s DPDP Act and Rules, and US and UK rules) and practise in three Scenario Sims. About 11 hours over 4 weeks, no code.
Bodhih Responsible AI and Data Privacy for Managers is a self-paced online certificate that teaches managers to lead their team’s AI use safely and lawfully. In about 11 hours you learn the 2026 rules at principle level (the EU AI Act after the AI Omnibus, the GDPR, India’s DPDP Act and Rules, US state laws), practise in three Scenario Sims and a privacy inspector, and build a real AI register entry and impact assessment. It needs no code and is not legal advice.
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People paste customer lists, CVs and complaint logs into whatever chatbot is open. Nobody meant harm, but nobody checked the purpose, the vendor terms or where the data now sits. Someone has to set the rules for this team, and that someone is usually the manager.
AI for hiring, reviews and customer decisions is sold with confident claims and little evidence. Without a few sharp questions and a way to read selection rates, you either block everything or approve something that later lands as a fairness complaint.
Breach clocks can start within hours, and customer contracts can be shorter still. Legal says “it depends”, and you need to know what to do in the first hour: contain, capture what happened, classify it and get the right people moving.
Your team in HR, sales, finance, operations, marketing or customer service uses or buys AI. You will leave knowing what you can approve today, what needs review and when to call legal or privacy.
You put AI into a process or a product. You will learn to run intake, classify the use, write an impact and privacy assessment, and design oversight that is real rather than a rubber stamp.
You have joined the committee that reviews AI requests. You will learn the register fields, the vendor questions and the risk tiers that make a monthly review quick and defensible.
You need managers who lead AI use well, and dated records of the measures you took. Each learner’s modules, scores and capstone sit on their learning record.
This course is not for you if you want a legal qualification or exam preparation for a professional certification such as the IAPP AIGP or a data protection officer course: it is a practical course for managers, taught at principle level.
Four dated facts, each linked to its source.
Of workers surveyed said they would use AI tools even without authorisation from their company.
BCG, AI at Work 2025 (press release), 26 June 2025National authorities supervise and enforce the EU AI Act’s AI literacy duty from this date; no certificate is required, but records of training help.
European Commission, AI literacy questions and answers, Updated 20 October 2026The EU’s high-risk rules for Annex III systems, including AI in hiring and managing staff, apply from this date after the AI Omnibus entered into force on 27 July 2026.
European Commission news: AI Omnibus enters into force, 27 July 2026Maximum penalty under India’s DPDP framework for failing to keep reasonable security safeguards; the DPDP Rules were notified on 13 November 2025 with an 18-month phase-in.
Press Information Bureau, Government of India, November 2025Imagine walking into your next AI governance review with the register entry, the impact and privacy assessment and the controls plan for your team’s real AI use already written. That is the capstone. Along the way you triage, classify, inspect, audit and respond in labs and simulations, so your first real decision is not your first attempt.
Name who could be harmed, rate severity and likelihood, and choose a proportionate first action using the NIST AI RMF functions.
Place a use in its EU AI Act tier, separate what applies today from what applies later, and know the moment to escalate to legal or privacy.
Run six checks on purpose, basis, notice, retention, transfers and vendor terms before data goes into an AI tool, and never let special-category data be pasted casually.
Calculate selection rates and impact ratios, and know what the four-fifths rule of thumb from US EEOC guidance does and does not tell you.
Give reviewers authority, time, information and a record, and give affected people an explanation and a way to contest.
Intake, internal risk tiers, the AI register, vendor due diligence with the CHECK questions and one page of staff quick rules.
Contain, capture, classify, start the clocks that may apply and communicate honestly, then turn the lesson into a control.
The pathway runs in order: a baseline assessment, six modules of about 65 minutes with a hands-on lab or simulation each and short boosters two and seven days later, the capstone on one real AI use case, and a final assessment on a parallel form. Notice how the same few questions (who is affected, what data, which rule, who decides) carry you from the first module to the last.
Measured before you start and again on the same instrument at the end, so the change is recorded rather than claimed.
The baseline assessment, Form A: 20 scenario questions on all six competencies, about 25 minutes. It is not pass/fail; it sets your baseline, and you take the parallel form at the end.
The harm map, severity and likelihood triage, and the frameworks managers should recognise, such as the NIST AI RMF. Lab: the Risk Triage Lab.
The EU AI Act after the AI Omnibus, the GDPR and India's DPDP Act, and US, UK and India AI guidance at principle level, with what applies today and later. Lab: the Rulebook Navigator.
Six checks before personal data goes into AI, vendor terms, training on your data and transfers, and what never to paste. Lab: the Privacy and Bias Inspector.
Selection rates and impact ratios with a bias-audit calculator, explainability, real human oversight and contest routes. Scenario Sim: The rejected candidate.
AI policy and staff quick rules, intake and risk tiering, the AI register and the CHECK vendor questions. Scenario Sim: The vendor call.
AI incidents and personal data breaches, the first-hour card, the notification clocks that may start, and honest communication. Scenario Sim: The leak.
Choose one AI use in your own team (or a Calderra case) and submit its AI register entry, an AI impact and privacy assessment, a controls and oversight plan and staff quick rules. Reviewed against the five-criterion rubric.
The final assessment, loaded from Form B: 20 parallel scenario questions, about 25 minutes. Score 70% or more (3 attempts), with your capstone accepted, for the credential.
Finishing this pathway issues a credential backed by the evidence you produced along the way. It is verifiable by link and is also issued as an Open Badge 2.0, so an employer can check it without taking your word for it.
CV screening and ranking, performance-review drafting and monitoring requests, including the EU AI Act Annex III employment area and the ban on emotion recognition at work.
Customer data in AI notes and CRM summaries, meeting bots on customer calls and vendor claims you need to test.
Credit decisions about sole traders versus companies, AI help with invoices and the privacy terms in vendor contracts.
Warehouse cameras and productivity scoring, supplier data and the incident route when a tool misbehaves.
AI images and copy, when to disclose AI use, personal data in segmentation and purpose creep.
Chat assistants that must say they are AI, call transcription, complaint handling and access requests.
What comes with the course, and what makes the practice different.
The rejected candidate (a fairness complaint about an AI screening tool), the vendor call (due diligence on “bias-free” claims) and the leak (a timed first hour after customer data goes into a free chatbot).
The Risk Triage Lab, the Rulebook Navigator with eight cases, the Privacy and Bias Inspector, a bias-audit calculator with a flip test, and tier and triage sorters. Examples switch to your role.
The AI Use Policy and Governance Kit, The Data Privacy Compliance Starter, Information Security for Small Business and Think Clearly When Machines Think Fast: templates such as the Vendor AI assessment questionnaire, the privacy impact assessment form and the Incident first-hour card.
See the governance kitCompany seats with each learner’s baseline, final score and capstone status, and a dated record of the training measures you took.
Ask about team seats| What is compared | A typical AI governance course | Responsible AI and Data Privacy at Bodhih |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | Governance specialists, lawyers or developers. | Managers who run teams that use or buy AI. |
| Scope | AI governance or data privacy, usually taught separately. | AI governance and data privacy as one job, the way a manager meets them. |
| How current | Often recorded before the AI Omnibus and India’s DPDP Rules 2025. | Current to November 2026, with every date it relies on listed in one place. |
| Practice | Videos and quizzes. | Three Scenario Sims, a Privacy and Bias Inspector, a bias-audit calculator and two labs. |
| Output | A completion certificate. | A reviewed capstone for your own team: register entry, impact assessment, controls plan and quick rules. |
| Credential | A completion certificate, or a professional certification after an exam. | A Bodhih credential as an Open Badge 2.0 showing your before and after. Not a professional certification. |
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Straight answers on time, price, tools and the credential. If yours is not here, ask us and you will have a reply the same working day.
No. The course teaches the rules at principle level, with the article or section number and the date for each, so that you know what you can decide yourself and when and what to ask your legal or privacy team. Every legal screen says so, and the capstone rewards escalating legal questions rather than inventing legal conclusions.
It is for people managers and team leads whose teams use or buy AI, in HR, sales, finance, operations, marketing or customer service, and for product and project owners and new members of an AI governance group. HR, compliance, risk and IT leaders buy it for their managers.
No. There is no code and no legal background is assumed. The course works with any AI tool your company approves, and the labs and simulations run inside the course, so you do not need a paid AI tool to complete them.
The course takes about 11 hours, and most learners finish in about 4 weeks alongside work. There are six modules of about 65 minutes each, a 25-minute baseline, a capstone of about three hours of work and a 30-minute final assessment.
The course costs $119 for an individual, and $99 per seat for companies. The price includes all six modules, the simulations and labs, the capstone review, both assessments, the credential and four complimentary Pro Kits.
Under Article 4 of the EU AI Act, providers and deployers of AI systems must take measures to support their staff’s AI literacy; it does not name a course or require a certificate, and it can reach organisations outside the EU when their AI is used in the EU or affects people there. No course can certify compliance. This course supports those measures: each learner’s dated record can be part of your evidence. Not legal advice.
Partly. The AI Omnibus, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force since 27 July 2026, moved the high-risk rules to 2 December 2027 for Annex III systems and 2 August 2028 for AI in products. The prohibitions and the AI literacy duty have applied since 2 February 2025, general-purpose AI rules since 2 August 2025, and transparency duties from 2 August 2026. The course lists every date in Module 2.
Yes, at principle level: notice, consent, security safeguards, breach intimation, rights requests and the phased dates, with most Data Fiduciary duties applying from 13 May 2027. It also covers CERT-In’s six-hour incident reporting direction, alongside the GDPR, the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and US state rules.
You receive the Bodhih Responsible AI and Data Privacy for Managers credential when your capstone is accepted and you pass the final assessment (70%). It is issued as an Open Badge 2.0 with a verify page and a PDF, and shows your baseline and final scores. It is an industry credential from Bodhih Training Solutions, not a university, government or professional body qualification.
The IAPP AIGP is a professional certification with an exam, for AI governance specialists. This course is a shorter, practical course for managers who run teams that use AI, and it ends in a capstone on your own work. It does not prepare you for the AIGP, ISO/IEC 42001 or any other outside exam, though the topics overlap.
Yes. Company seats cost $99 per seat, and many companies pair this course for managers with AI at Work Essentials for all staff. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601 for seats, reporting or an in-house rollout.
The course is $119 for an individual, or $99 per seat for companies. You can start today with the 25-minute baseline, then triage your first AI use in Module 1. For a team, write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
Starting records where you stand today. That baseline is what the re-measurement is compared against, and it is never rewritten afterwards.
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Measure your team first, plan each person’s growth after, or bring a trainer or coach in. Bodhih’s sister companies cover the rest of the journey.