Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other forms of technology have become pervasive in our daily lives. With this technology comes serious ethical questions. How do we use, create, and regulate all of it responsibly? Philosophers are often well-equipped to wrestle with ethical questions, but less well-equipped to wrestle with questions of technology itself. Computer scientists are well-equipped to deal with the problems and challenges of technology, but less well-equipped to deal with the ethical problems and challenges that technology can pose. In this co-taught course, we bring together the two fields to address ethical questions involving social media, data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other related topics.
The development of this course was supported by a grant from the National Humanities Center through the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Curriculum Design Project.
| Class meets: | ||
| Wednesdays 1:15-4:00, SCI 183 | ||
| Office Hours: | ||
| Prof. Thomason | Mondays 3:30-5:30, Beardsley 209 | |
| Prof. Meeden | Tuesdays 1:30-3:00, SCI 243 | |
You don't need to set up an appointment for office hours; they are a drop-in, first-come-first-serve affair. If you can't make it during office hours, please email us to make an appointment for another day or time.
| Professor: | Lisa Meeden |
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| Department: | Computer Science |
| Email: | lmeeden1 at swarthmore.edu |
| Office: | SCI 243 |
| Professor: | Krista Thomason |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| Email: | kthomas2 at swarthmore.edu |
| Office: | Beardsley 209 |