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1

Preface

  • Acknowledgements
  • About This Course
2

Introduction: Why AI Ethics?

  • Introduction
  • What Is Artificial Intelligence?
  • And What, Precisely, Is Ethics?
  • What Does This Course Cover?
  • Why AI Ethics Is So Exciting
  • Why Should Anyone Want to Study AI Ethics?
  • Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to AI Ethics
  • And What Are You Bringing to This Course?
  • Frequent Criticisms of Ethics
  • The Boundaries and Limits of Ethics
  • The Approach of This Course
  • Developing Ethical Autonomy
  • Why Examine Underlying Concepts in AI Ethics?
  • Why Am I Writing This Course?
  • What Is to Come
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
3

The Rise of AI Ethics

  • AI Ethics: Why Now?
  • Same or Different? What's Special About AI Ethics?
  • Common Themes and Varieties of Questions in AI Ethics
  • Ethical Questions in AI Currently Receiving Attention
  • A Brief History of AI Ethics
  • AI Ethics Now: Who, What, Where, and Why?
  • AI Ethics, Law, Policy, Regulation, and Ethics Guidance
  • Looking Forward: What Is Our Job Now?
  • Case Study: An Indigenous AI Report
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
4

AI, Philosophy of Technology, and Ethics

  • Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and AI as a Technology
  • Comparing AI to Humans
  • A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology
  • Technology and Attitudes Towards Nature
  • The Implicit Values of Technology
  • Communication Through New Technologies
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
5

Methods in Applied Ethics

  • Introduction: A Simple Account of Methods in Applied Ethics
  • The Challenges from AI for Methodology in Applied Ethics
  • Common Assumptions About the Nature of Ethics, and Their Influence on Methodology in Applied Ethics
  • Methodology in Applied Ethics: The Stories We Tell
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
6

Humans and Intelligent Machines: Underlying Values

  • Introduction
  • The Nature and Value of Intelligence
  • Values Underlying the Use of Data
  • Human Nature
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
7

Normative Ethical Theory and AI Ethics

  • Introduction to Normative Ethical Theories
  • Normative Ethical Theories: Consequentialism
  • Normative Ethical Theories: Deontological Approaches
  • Normative Ethical Theories: Virtue Ethics
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
8

Philosophy for AI Ethics: Metaethics, Metaphysics, and More

  • Introduction
  • Metaethics
  • The Theory of Knowledge
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Questions in Metaphysics: What Is Reality?
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
9

Persons and AI

  • Introduction
  • An Account of Personhood: Respect for Persons as a Fundamental Ideal
  • Some Contemporary Models of Personhood and Their Ethical Implications
  • Interlude: Mind and Body
  • Are Conceptions of Personhood Too Focused on the Cognitive and the Rational?
  • Personhood Continued: Two Approaches to Personhood, Agency, and Machines
  • The Limits and Boundaries of Persons
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
10

Individuals, Society, and AI: Online Communication

  • Introduction
  • What Concepts and Tools Can We Bring to These Questions?
  • Why Is AI Being Used to Address the Online Harms Question?
  • Content Moderation for Online Harms: What Is Needed?
  • Challenges for AI in Tackling Online Harms
  • Bias and the Production of ‘AI Ethics’
  • AI, Online Content, Persons, Self, and Society
  • The Use of AI: Reshaping Ethical Questions?
  • And Just to Finish
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
11

Towards the Future with AI: Work and Superintelligence

  • Introduction
  • AI in the Workplace
  • AI, Employment and Unemployment, and Future Visions
  • Superintelligence, Existential Risk, and the Control Problem
  • Longtermism in AI
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes
12

Our Future with AI: Future Projections and Moral Machines

  • Introduction
  • The Purposeful Universe: Value Beyond the Human
  • Contrasting Frameworks Behind Visions of AI and Approaches to Ethics
  • The Moral Status of AI and Robot Rights
  • Machines as Moral Agents: Could Artificial Intelligence Enhance Human Morality?
  • Key Points
  • Educator Notes

1

The Rise of AI Ethics

  • Understanding AI Ethics and Its Implications
  • Considering AI Ethics Development and Deployment
  • Understanding the Evolution of AI Ethics — A Historical and Contemporary Perspective
2

AI, Philosophy of Technology, and Ethics

  • Understanding the Implicit Values of Technology and AI in Communication
3

Methods in Applied Ethics

  • Understanding Ethical Assumptions in AI — Universalism, Moral Dilemmas, and Human Values
4

Humans and Intelligent Machines: Underlying Values

  • Examining the Nature and Value of Intelligence in AI
  • Understanding Human Nature and the Place of Humanity in the Universe
5

Normative Ethical Theory and AI Ethics

  • Examining Normative Ethical Theories — Consequentialism in AI Ethics
  • Interpreting Deontological Approaches in AI Ethics and Rule Application
  • Exploring AI and Virtue Ethics — Developing Moral Character in Machines
6

Philosophy for AI Ethics: Metaethics, Metaphysics, and More

  • Understanding Metaethics and AI Ethics — Examining the Moral Foundations of AI Decision-Making
7

Persons and AI

  • Examining AI and the Ethics of Personhood in Cybersecurity
8

Individuals, Society, and AI: Online Communication

  • Examining AI and Online Harms — Ethical and Technical Challenges in Content Moderation
9

Towards the Future with AI: Work and Superintelligence

  • Examining AI in the Workplace — Ethics, Automation, and Future Implications
10

Our Future with AI: Future Projections and Moral Machines

  • Examining AI and Ethics in the Workplace — Autonomy, Surveillance, and Moral Responsibility

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