Tech/Ethics

How do we solve the social dilemmas posed by new technologies like AI? What would it mean to engineer a self-driving car or facial recognition algorithm for good? To regulate them for good? We will look at ethical theories and apply them to these questions, and more: how recommender algorithms change social networks; the meaning of "free speech" in networked environments; algorithms that exacerbate racial or gender discrimination; the debate over LLM consciousness; whether AI will become a threat to humans; how machine learning in the health sector affects privacy; and what it means to be an ethical engineer in a corporate environment.