SemesterFall Semester, 2023
DepartmentJunior Class of Department of Sociology Senior Class of Department of Sociology
Course NameSpecialized Course III (GTIM): Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
InstructorCHEN PO LIANG
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

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Course Schedule & Requirements



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Topic



Content and Reading Assignment



1. 9/13



Introduction & Overview



N/A



2. 9/20



Ethics of Artificial Intelligence



Oxford Handbook, Ch. 1



New Law of Robotics, Ch.1



3. 9/27



Fairness & Bias



Algorithmic bias - Sina Fazelpour and David Danks https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phc3.12760?af=R 



Are Algorithms Value-Free? - Gabrielle M. Johnson https://www.gmjohnson.com/uploads/5/2/5/1/52514005/are_algorithms_value_free_.pdf 



4. 10/6



AI and Democracy



Guest Lecturer: Miller



5. 10/11



Justice



Algorithmic injustice - Abeba Birhane https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921000155 ????



Data Owning Democracy or Digital Socialism? - James Muldoon https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230.2022.2120737 



6. 10/18



Healing Humans



New Law of Robotics, Ch.2



7. 10/25



Machine Learners



New Law of Robotics, Ch.3



8. 11/1



The Alien Intelligence of Media



New Law of Robotics, Ch.4



9. 11/8



Machines Judging Humans



New Law of Robotics, Ch.5



Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead - Cynthia Rudin



https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.10154.pdf



10. 11/15



Computational Power and Human Wisdom



New Law of Robotics, Ch.7 & 8



11. 11/22



Bias Dilemma



The Bias Dilemma - Oisín Deery and Katherine Bailey



https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/14292  



On the Advantages of Distinguishing Between Predictive and Allocative Fairness in Algorithmic Decision?Making - Fabian Beigang - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-022-09615-9   



12. 11/29



Transparency



Transparency in Complex Computational Systems - Kathleen Creel



https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy-of-science/article/transparency-in-complex-computational-systems/4DB040EB28172CADF5F2858B62D0952C   ??? ?



Algorithmic and Human Decision Making - Mario Günther and Atoosa Kasirzadeh https://www.mario-guenther.com/_files/ugd/70b9dd_ff087ae509034fb9b126dcf783182457.pdf



13. 12/6



Privacy



A modern Pascal's wager for mass electronic surveillance. - David Danks https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6d0320212a261d8716949f/t/621319146907794d4dba3724/1645418773886/Telos-PascalsWager-Pub.pdf



The Surveillance Society - Oscar H. Handy Jnr. https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/39/3/61/4210548 



14. 12/13



Alignment



Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Nick Bostrom https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai



Risk Imposition by Artificial Agents - Johanna Thoma



https://johannathoma.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/moral-proxy-problem-feb-2021.pdf 



15. 12/20



Group Discussion & Office Hour



 



16. 12/27



Group Discussion & Office Hour


 

17. 1/3



Final Presentation



 



18. 1/10



Final presentation



 




 



 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

 



劉彥岑



111551019@nccu.edu.tw


Requirement/Grading

Course Participation20%



Mid-term presentation20 %



Final presentation: 20%



Final Paper: 30 % (3000 words)



 


Textbook & Reference

Frank Pasquale, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (2020).



ISBN-10: ‎ 0674975227



ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0674975224



Brad Smith, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (2019).



ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984877712



ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984877710



Markus D. Dubber, Frank Pasquale, & Sunit Das, The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (2020).


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