Created specifically for internal auditors, this is a foundation course for those who are seeking to understand the fundamental concepts of the new wave of generative AI.
It will explore what it means for them professionally, the challenges it poses for their organisation, the potential benefits and pitfalls of its use, and ultimately how they can quickly and easily start to use the technology to enhance their impact and productivity. The course also promotes idea exchange and network benchmarking between participants.
Who should attend?
This course will be of value to internal auditors who are curious about generative AI and would like to take their first structural steps into its use. Those that will benefit the most from the practical use cases in the course are those at the beginning or early stages of their journey with either no or basic exposure to generate AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Co-Pilot for example. Heads of audit and those with leadership responsibility will benefit from the course as a stimulant for their functional AI development and how to galvanise their teams on their AI journey.
What will I learn?
Upon completion you will be able to:
- define the basic concepts of generative AI
- identify various standards and guidelines associated with the use of AI
- identify the various interaction points between AI and the internal audit team
- identify the risks and opportunities of generative AI, and what that may mean for internal
audit teams - identify and evaluate a portfolio of potential use cases for LLM generative AI in your
teams - explain the fundamentals of Prompt engineering for improved responses and content
generation - construct your own prompts and use generative AI models in the context of internal
audit - appraise and defend ideas and learnings with peers.
AI for IA Level 1 Course programme (inc. pre reading)
We have divided this intensive course into two sessions. You can also choose to attend Level 2: Beyond the Basics in a separate session.
Pre-reading:
- What is AI? Why now? Basic Terminology
- AI Risk Summary & Source Links
- AI Checklist for Internal Audit
1st half, 11. March 2025 from 09:00 – 13:00
- The principles of Generative AI & the importance of critical thinking/HITL.
- The AI Environment: AI Risks, Ethical & Responsible AI, Legislation & Standards, and the
importance of AI Policy. - The internal Auditors Roles in the context of AI:
o AUDITOR, CHAMPION, USER and what each of those means.
2nd half, 12 March 2025 from 09.00 – 13.00
- Adopting an AI mindset – how to work with Generative AI as an Internal Auditor
- Principles of prompting and prompt engineering
- Walk through of IA centric use cases through live demo and screenshots.
Level
This course is for new beginners and internal auditors who are not too familiar with using AI. We also offer a follow up 4 hour course on March 13 from 09.00 – 13.00 AI for IA – Level 2: Beyond the Basics. Read more and register HERE.
CPE
You will receive 8 CPE for CIA, CRMA and Diplomert internrevisor for attending the course.
Instructor
Read the full bio for Stephen Foster HERE.
