Week 1 Introduction

Week 2 Freedom: Manipulation by AI and Robot Slavery

Week 3 Equality and Justice: Bias and Discrimination by AI

Week 4 Democracy: Echo Chambers and Machine Totalitarianism

Week 5 Power: Surveillance and (Self-)disciplining by Data

Week 6 What about Non-Humans? Environmental Politics and Posthumanism

Week 7 A not so democratic history

Week 8 Mid-term examination

Week 9 What AI, what democracy?

Week 10 How AI undermines the basic principles of democracy

Week 11 How AI erodes knowledge and trust

Week 12 Strengthening democracy and democratising AI

Week 13 AI for democracy and a new Renaissance

Week 14 The common good and communication

Week 15 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

Week 16 Final examination

1.協助課務順利推動

2.適時參與、引導討論

3.協助解決修課同學之相關問題

Mid-term examination 30%, Final examination 30%, Group Presentation 20%, Attendance 20%

1. The Political Philosophy of AI: An Introduction, by Mark Coeckelbergh, 2022.

2. Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It, by Mark Coeckelbergh, 2024.

3. AI Ethics, by Mark Coeckelbergh, 2020.