THE SOCIAL AND ETHICAL IMPACTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Description

This course examines how artificial intelligence systems and digital automation technologies reshape activities, discourses, and imagined futures within contemporary life. Students explore AI systems’ histories, technical affordances, and ethical/social impacts and connect them to broader social, ethical, and philosophical debates around the role of digital technologies in modern societies.

Antirequisites

MIT 4031F/G if taken in 2020-21 or 2023-24; MediaCom 3446A/B if taken in 2024-25 or 2025-26.

Extra information

3 lecture hours.

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