# 5 Weekends to Privacy Engineering & AI Governance Expertise

**Source**: https://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/privacy-cert/index.html
**Parent**: https://exec.cs.cmu.edu/

# The Rise of Privacy Engineering and AI Governance Professionals

We live in a data economy. Nearly every product, service or process we interact with collects and processes some data about us. This data goes on to feed machine learning algorithms designed to predict our tastes, habits, future behaviors or possible health ailments. Increasingly this data will also be consumed by AI agents designed to assist us with a variety of tasks.

Along with this increasing dependence on personal data, we have seen the emergence of stringent regulations designed to keep organizations that collect and process our data accountable. Regulations such as the GDPR, CCPA and EU AI Act come with steep penalties for organizations that fail to meet their requirements.

These developments have, in turn, created unprecedented demand for professionals capable of operating at the intersection of law and technology, [leading to the emergence of Privacy Engineering and AI Governance](https://iapp.org/news/a/the-disciplines-of-modern-data-privacy-engineering/) as highly desirable careers with significant shortages today.