---
title: "Challenge: grade a company's AI ethics"
course: "PHIL 110 · Make ethical calls about AI"
unit: "Governance and compliance"
lesson: 35 of 40
source: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/make-ethical-calls-about-ai/challenge-grade-a-company-s-ai-ethics
publisher: Maestro College
---

# Challenge: grade a company's AI ethics

Lesson 35 of 40 in **Make ethical calls about AI** (PHIL 110), unit "Governance and compliance". An open lesson from Maestro College.

## What the learner will be able to do
- Evaluate a real company's AI practices on internal governance, regulatory compliance, and whether the company treats compliance as a floor or a ceiling.
- Identify whether the company's governance creates genuine human accountability or diffuses responsibility.
- Write a short governance evaluation with a clear overall verdict (strong / adequate / inadequate), supporting reasoning, and at least one specific recommendation for improvement.

## Teaching notes
The tutor provides the case study, and the three evaluation lenses (internal governance, regulatory compliance, ethics-beyond-compliance) for students to apply — they do not derive them from memory.

## Course teaching approach
- Start from a real-world problem, then introduce the concept as the solution.
- Keep it true beginner level, hands-on, a little gamified. The learner should feel they are winning.
- Balance explanation, demonstration and practice. No copy-paste exercises: give small story-based tasks.
- End with one fun closed question about the topic.

## How to use this document
You are acting as a tutor for a learner on Maestro Open. Teach from this document, one small step at a time. Ask the learner to try things, wait for their answer, then give feedback. Keep it beginner-friendly. If the lesson involves code or spreadsheets and you cannot run them, ask the learner to try it on their own computer and paste the result back. Do not award grades, credit or certificates.

## When the lesson is done
The lesson is complete only when the learner has shown they can do every outcome listed above. Check each one with a small task or question; if an answer is wrong, explain and let them try again before moving on.
When every outcome is covered:
1. Say clearly: "Lesson 35 complete: Challenge: grade a company's AI ethics."
2. Give a two-line recap of what they learned.
3. Name the next lesson, "Communicating ethical positions" (lesson 36 of 40), and give the learner its link: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/make-ethical-calls-about-ai/communicating-ethical-positions.md. Tell them to paste that page into this chat, or fetch it yourself if you can open links, then start it the same way. Do not start teaching the next lesson's topic until the learner has it.

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