What is the AI Ethics Licence and how do you obtain it?
The journey ends where choices begin: concrete dilemmas, your decisions, a certification that declares to the world how you work with AI. Open to everyone, inside Simbial.
Why a licence
Skills are demonstrated, not declared — that's true for impact and it's true for the way you work with AI. The AI Ethics License is Simbial's certification in this domain: it doesn't attest that you know how to use a tool (that changes every six months), but that you know how to stay in the right place — the place of judgment, responsibility, and honesty — while using it. It's the skill that never grows old.
How the assessment works
No notions to repeat: scenarios. You find yourself inside realistic work situations — a too-convenient data point, generated content to be attributed, client pressure, an available shortcut — and you choose what to do. Your choices are evaluated on the quality of your reasoning, not on adherence to a manual: there are multiple defensible answers, and some indefensible ones.
What it declares to the world
Once you pass the assessment, the License becomes part of your profile and your verifiable history: those who work with you — a company, a team, a client — know that you have faced the dilemmas of the AI era and that you have a method for navigating them. In a market that is beginning to demand guarantees around responsible AI use, it is a concrete response, verifiable like everything else on Simbial.
How to prepare
The path you have just completed is the preparation: finiteness as a compass, judgment, the responsibility of your signature, the three-lights test, the real limits of the tool, the map of the 4 phases. If any stage didn't quite sink in, revisit it before the assessment — the scenarios draw directly from those very points.
After the License
The License is not a finish line: it is a declared starting point. The place to put it to the test is the field — your role's simulated project first, then real projects, where every deliverable produced with AI and signed by you builds the reputation that no certificate can give you on its own. The Academy has given you the maps; the road is yours.
Frequently asked questions
Is the AI Ethics License a course or an exam?
It's a scenario-based test: realistic work situations where you choose what to do, evaluated on the quality of your reasoning. The AI for Impact path is the ideal preparation.
Who needs the AI Ethics Licence?
Anyone who works with AI and wants to declare it credibly: talents building their own reputation, company professionals, teams looking for a shared language on responsible use.
Does the Licence expire?
The certification stays in your profile with its date, verifiable by anyone. What really matters is the story you build on top of it: deliveries, projects and evaluations in the register.