Sachit Mahajan: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2023 |
| Name | Dr. Sachit Mahajan |
| Address | Computational Social Science ETH Zürich, STD F 2 Stampfenbachstrasse 48 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telephone | +41 44 633 81 33 |
| sachit.mahajan@gess.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Lecturer |
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| 860-0024-00L | Digital Society: Ethical, Societal and Economic Challenges  | 3 credits | 2V | D. Helbing, S. Mahajan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | This seminar will address ethical challenges coming along with new digital technologies such as cloud computing, Big Data, artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, quantum computing, robots, drones, Internet of Things, virtual reality, blockchain technology, and more. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Participants shall learn to understand that any technology implies not only opportunities but also risks. It is important to understand these well in order to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits. In some cases, it is highly non-trivial to identify and avoid undesired side effects of technologies. The seminar will sharpen the attention how to design technologies for values, also called value-sensitive design or ethically aligned design. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | Will be provided on Moodle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture notes | Will be provided on Moodle. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literature | Ethically Aligned Design Version 1: https://standards.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-standards/standards/web/documents/other/ead_v1.pdf Version 2: https://standards.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-standards/standards/web/documents/other/ead_v2.pdf Value-Sensitive Design https://www.amazon.com/Value-Sensitive-Design-Technology-Imagination-ebook/dp/B08BT4F6L2/ Handbook of Ethics, Values and Technological Design https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Ethics-Values-Technological-Design/dp/9400769695/ Thinking Ahead https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319150772 Towards Digital Enlightenment https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-90869-4 Künstliche Intelligenz und Maschinisierung des Menschen https://www.amazon.com/Künstliche-Intelligenz-Maschinisierung-Menschen/dp/3869625120 Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy (J Taplin) https://bookshop.org/books/move-fast-and-break-things-how-facebook-google-and-amazon-cornered-culture-and-undermined-democracy How Humans Judge Machines https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humans-Judge-Machines-Cesar-Hidalgo/dp/0262045524/ Ethics of smart cities https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/20/11162 The ethics of AI in health care: a mapping review https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953620303919 Soft Ethics and the Governance of the Digital https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-018-0303-9 The Ethics of AI Ethics: An Evaluation of Guidelines https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-020-09517-8 Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540091.2016.1271400 The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228 Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-90869-4_7 Further literature will be recommended in the lectures. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | To earn credit points, students will have to read the relevant literature on one of the above technologies and give a presentation about the ethical implications. Both, potential problems and possible solutions shall be carefully discussed. Students need to present a new subject, for which they have not earned any credit points before. Good scientific practices, in particular citation and quotation rules, must be properly complied with. Chatham House rules apply to this course. Materials may not be shared without previous written permission. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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