人工智能倫理學

This course will offer an overview of ethical and social issues raised by advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). After clarifying key notions like intelligence and AI, we will consider whether and how the many benefits that AI has to offer society can be promoted without generating unacceptable costs, within the field of medicine as well as other contexts. We will discuss contemporary phenomena like hi-tech surveillance, technological unemployment, the obsolescence of various human skills, and the deference to “opaque” algorithms in our decision-making. We will also address the problem of AI bias, as well as issues raised by future AI-related developments, such as self-driving cars; autonomous weapons; increasingly realistic virtual reality; humanoid robots and “human-like” chatbots; the possibility of conscious machines; and ultimately, the prospect of creating machines more intelligent than humans, and its potentially desirable or catastrophic consequences for humanity.

English language skills Basic critical thinking skills

1. Acquire knowledge of the main issues pertaining to the philosophy and ethics of AI. 2. Have a solid grasp of the relevant philosophical issues. 3. Students should be able to clearly articulate and defend a philosophical position of their own, in relation to some of the topics covered in the course.

Class participation (30%) Oral presentation & written assignment (35%) Final exam (35%)

Various readings which will be uploaded to the E3 platform. Introduction to the topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-ai/