The goal is to introduce the topic of AI in a general and comprehensive way.

• Can machines think?
• What are the ethical challenges of thinking machines?
• How should thinking machines treat people?
• How should people treat thinking machines?
• What are hopes and fears concerning thinking machines?

Required Readings:

• Turing (1950) Computing machinery and Intelligence
• Asaro (2006) What should we want from a robot ethic?
• Boulamwini (2017) How I’m fighting bias in algorithms
• Boulamwini (2018) AI, aint I a woman?
• HPE (2018) The Ethics of AI