Artificial Intelligence in ABA: Ethics, Privacy, and Clinical Accountability

Learn to evaluate AI-assisted clinical notes, program proposals, and educational materials using source records, privacy review, and professional accountability. Work through fictional cases that distinguish recorded observations, calculations, hypotheses, and unsupported claims.

• Distinguish documented observations, calculations, clinical hypotheses, and unsupported AI additions in a draft.
• Link an AI-use decision to relevant BACB ethical responsibilities rather than treating output fluency as evidence.
• Identify confidentiality risks across input, processing, storage, access, and secondary use, and determine when organizational review is needed.
• Correct a clinical note using original data while preserving uncertainty, prompt levels, and the limits of the observation.
• Evaluate a proposed program for assessment support, competence, client preferences, consent, measurement, and implementation feasibility.
• Review educational claims, citations, translations, and accessibility before release.
• Document an accept, revise, hold, or reject decision with an accountable reviewer and follow-up action.

1. Accountability before automation: 15 minutes
2. Privacy is a data pathway: 20 minutes
3. Audit a clinical note against the source: 25 minutes
4. Program development without invented clinical authority: 20 minutes
5. Educational materials, bias, and supporting evidence: 15 minutes
6. Build an accountable workflow: 15 minutes

Final assessment: 10 additional planned minutes.

The course includes 34 multiple-choice learning and source-review questions, a 10-question final assessment requiring at least 8 correct answers, and an optional course evaluation. Change between English and Spanish within the course. Progress and your earned PDF diploma are linked to your Academy account.

Full-text extension readings are optional beyond the planned activities. Cases are fictional and do not replace individual assessment.

Switch between English and Spanish within the course. Your progress is saved in your Academy account.

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