Required material are listed on the Course Schedule, as appropriate. This page includes additional optional materials, organized roughly by the week of relevance, though relevance of material often overlaps across weeks.
Week 1 AI and Personhood Optional Resources
- “Three Approaches to Ethics“
- Eliza the bot therapist
- Cognitive architectures and agent programs
- Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld’s “The First Law of Robotics: A Call to Arms“Poole and Mackworth’s “Artificial Intelligence” Chapter 1Pat Langley’s “Cognitive Architectures and General Intelligent Systems”
Week 2 AI and Smart City Optional Resources
- “Smart Cities: Definitions, Dimensions, Performance, and Initiatives” (through the first paragraph of page 1730)
- “How Cities are Getting Smart using Artificial Intelligence“
- Scan Vanderbilt Institute for Smart Cities Operation and Research (VISOR) slides
- Doug and Helen’s blog post on sublating binaries using intelligent vehicles to illustrate
Week 3 AI and Creativity Optional Resources
- Colton, et al “Computational Creativity Coming of Age“
- Scan the paper titles of the 2018 International Conference on Computational Creativity
- Slides on Creativity and AI – Jay Clayton
Week 4 AI and the Military Optional Resources
Week 5 AI and Social Justice Optional Resources
- “Race, Gender, & Power: A new AI Research Agenda“
- Unthought-the power of the cognitive nonconscious_N Katherine Hayles Ch 1
- the book Algorithms of Oppression
Week 6 AI and Medicine Optional Resources
- “Ethical and Practical Considerations in the Use of a Predictive Model to Trigger Suicide Prevention Interventions in Healthcare Settings” (first article in list)
- Robotic surgery (short News article) and image analysis (short video)
- Robotic pets for dementia patients (short News and video)
- Health Care Vendor Data Management in the Era of Big Data and Machine Learning by Daniel Fabbri
- Read short articles (3) on AI & Medicine
- Suggested readings from Colin: The NYT piece from today on privacy
- McKernan_FibroAI
Week 7 AI and Law Optional Resources
- Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects (Long, start early)
- “AI and Law: A Fruitful Strategy” by Edwina Rissland, et. al.
- A Primer on Using Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Profession
- The 28th_Play on AI Malpractice_Student Final Project (a final group project from last year’s class)
- AI Rights – Ethics of AI Final Project Pro-Rights Narrative/ Against AI Rights Narrative (creative final projects from last year’s student projects)
- AI and Law course at Vanderbilt
- AI and Law Journal
- John Searle’s Chinese Room argument full text: Minds Brains and Computers
Week 8 Superintelligence Optional Resources
- Greg Egan’s “Crystal Nights“
- Aritificial Intelligence for the American People (gov)
- American AI Intelligence Initiative: Year One Annual Report
Week 10 AI and Environmental Sustainability Optional Resources
- Doug’s essay on “Leadership in Sustainability” (preprint). This touches on AI, but it is primarily on sustainability and thinking more generally
- Carla Gomes, et al’ “Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future” (preprint) — a bit more advanced for CS folks
Week 11 AI and Education Optional Resources
Week 12 AI and Divinity Optional Resources
- Clifford Anderson’s “Digital Humanities and the Future of Theology
- Also by Clifford Anderson: A New Hermeneutics of Suspicion? The Challenge of deepfakes to Theological Epistemology
- Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley
- Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principals
Deep Fakes
- Deep Fakes – Is Your Sister Really Calling?
- face2face_real time face capture ad reenactment of RGB videos
- Clifford Anderson: A New Hermeneutics of Suspicion? The Challenge of deepfakes to Theological Epistemology
The Ethics of AI (general)
- American AI Initiative: Year One Annual Report to mark critical milestones
- “Ethics of AI“
- Computing and Ethics course at Georgia Tech
- Fei-Fei Li on changing the industry
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Computer Ethics
- Semantic Web: Linked data at the BBC (1, 2, 3, …), Temporal representations (1, 2, …)
- Apprehensive views toward the future of AI domination: Henry Kissinger
- Other AI Ethics related classes: Textbook (1, 2, …)
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Other resources to consider assigning
- Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach, or I am a Strange LoopJoseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Thought to Calculation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reason), possibly chapter 1 only (https://cyborgdigitalculture.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/24-weizenbaum-03.pdf)
- Sciences of the Artificial https://courses.washington.edu/thesisd/documents/Kun_Herbert%20Simon_Sciences_of_the_Artificial.pdfJon Kleinberg, Cornell: “Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness”
- Kilian Weinberger, Cornell: “Interpretable Machine Learning: What are the limits and is it necessary?”
- Allen Newell, “Remarks on the Relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology”
- David Ferrucci, et al, “Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project”