PH 263 - HUM Societal Impacts of Computing, A.I., and Robotics

4.00 credits.

(Humanities Core Course)
This is a course about the ethical, social, and political implications and consequences of computing, AI, and robotics. It will be shown in detail how such algorithms greatly exacerbate prejudice and discrimination of every variety including racism, sexism, ethnicity-based, gender-based, and class-based. Importantly, we will also devote time in this course to discussing how we might responsibly use computing, AI, and robotics by making us the users and our policies more ethical and humane, and how possibly to teach the machines and algorithms themselves to make better ethical decisions. Fall semester.