Introduction to AI & Ethics (LAW-RT-AIETHI-24)
LAW-RT-AIETHI-24
| Department |
LAW |
| Course category |
LAW Seminar - 3 credits |
| Course type |
Seminar |
| Academic year |
2024-2025 |
| Term |
2ND TERM |
| Credits |
3 (EUI Law credits) |
| Professors |
- Emmanouil (Manolis) Bougiakiotis
Mateus Correia De Carvalho
Elina Nerantzi
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| Contact |
Law Department administration,
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| Course materials |
| Sessions |
03/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Sala dei Cuoi
07/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Sala dei Cuoi
10/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Sala dei Cuoi
14/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Sala dei Cuoi
17/02/2025 15:00-17:00 @ Sala dei Cuoi
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Purpose
Learning Outcomes
After completing the seminar, participants should be able to:
• Have a basic understanding of the various ethical challenges that AI technologies pose.
• Have an understanding of the interactions between the technical aspects of AI and society.
• Critically engage with the literature discussion on AI & responsibility, AI & privacy, and AI & democracy.
• Critically analyse the different views on these issues and express their own views about them.
Description
What is ethics? What is AI technology? And what is AI ethics? From Heidegger’s seminal paper ‘The Question concerning Technology’ to today’s discussions on AI-crimes and political influences in TikTok, the relevant questions on technology (including AI technology) and ethics remain the same: are technologies value-neutral tools or human values and human prejudices are sometimes embedded in them? Could our technological creations (like robots) be moral agents or moral patients? What should our technologies know about us, and should we rely on them in a democratic system? How can we mitigate their risks?
The course will offer a comprehensive introduction to the field of AI and ethics, resting on the crossover between philosophy and legal theory. Particular emphasis will be given: i) on the accountability and responsibility gaps emerging by the autonomous and unforeseeable aspects of AI decision-making, b) the profound privacy concerns engendered by AI, examining the ways in which these technologies compromise privacy at the individual and at the collective level and c) the ways in which AI compromises democracy, such as through the facilitation of misinformation and the manipulation of voters, but also the ways in which it can help foster it.
Reading list:
https://readinglist.eui.eu/leganto/public/39EUI_INST/lists/2259931840008406?auth=SAML&idpCode=SAML_LEGANTO
First, Second & Third Term: registration from 26 to 30 September 2024
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Page last updated on 05 September 2023