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The application of artificial intelligence is expanding rapidly and has the potential to reshape many fields, including transportation, finance, health care, marketing, social media, criminal justice, and public policy, just to name a few. AI’s ability to predict human preference and behavior or even substitute human judgment in these fields creates opportunities as well as concerns for safety, bias and discrimination, transparency, inequality, and job loss. Designed to serve students with no background in AI to those who have an existing technical background, this course surveys current and emerging applications of AI in different fields and the related ethical issues and governance problems. Students from the humanities and social sciences will gain a deeper understanding of the technical aspects underpinning today’s ethical and policy debates related to AI. Students with more technical backgrounds will better appreciate the ethical issues that arise in programming and engineering and understand how technology interacts with broader societal contexts.
The course’s goal is to encourage each student to become proactive in thinking of the societal implications of technological change and the potential roles one can play as a consumer, citizen, engineer, designer, and future business leader and policymaker.
This website is created to facilitate your experience with the course. You are able to navigate resources to ease your research, read global news on AI, and learn more from the case studies and blogs published by your peers.
