PHIL 284 - Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: Minds and Values

Semester Offered: Fall
0.5 unit(s)

AI is transforming our world. It is changing work, research, institutional structures, and even the ways people relate to one another in personal relationships. AIs are better than humans at some things. At the same time, AIs can reproduce and reinforce harmful biases and injustice. So, we face urgent questions. What would it be to bring AIs into alignment with human values? What can we learn from AI, and how? Should humans use AIs, and if so, for what purposes? Can AIs reason? Experience? Express meaning? This course explores the questions by drawing on work across cognitive science, computer science, and philosophy. Kate Pendoley.

Prerequisite(s): One 100-level course in Philosophy, or permission of the instructor.

First six-week course.

One 3-hour period.

Course Format: INT