Ethical AI: Lessons from the Age of Revolutions
Take a journey back to the American and French revolutions to understand how this relates to modern-day AI ethical dilemmas.
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Ethical AI: Lessons from the Age of Revolutions
Gain a solid understanding of AI ethics
On this four-week course, you’ll explore the ethical challenges of AI through the lens of 18th-century revolutionary ideals.
By drawing parallels between historical concepts from the American and French Revolutions and current AI dilemmas, you’ll gain a unique perspective on addressing modern technological ethical issues.
This will help you gain skills in critical thinking, historical analysis, and the practical application of ethical principles to AI development and governance.
Delve into AI governance
You’ll start by critically evaluating the power dynamics in AI ethics.
Exploring the emergence of rights, you’ll go back to the Age of Revolutions to understand how these ideals interlink with modern AI ethics.
Explore the age of AI
Next, you’ll unpack digital rights in the age of AI. You’ll explore key terms like data serfdom to understand how people’s personal data can be used and sometimes exploited.
Gain the skills to excel as an AI developer
Finally, you’ll analyse ethical dilemmas using revolutionary-era frameworks. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to develop ethical AI solutions and create a manifesto to address contemporary AI issues.
Learning from the experts at Pragmatic AI Labs, you’ll finish the course with in-demand AI knowledge and skills.
Syllabus
Week 1
Ethical AI: A Human-Centric Approach
Course Overview
This course, led by Noah Gift, explores radical ideas for ethical AI from a human-centric perspective. It challenges traditional views on ethical AI by prioritizing human needs over corporate interests or GDP growth.
The Emergence of Rights - Age of Revolutions
Examine the historical context of human rights, focusing on the Age of Revolutions. Draw parallels between past societal changes and the current digital revolution, exploring the evolution of rights
Digital Rights in the Age of AI
Explore the concept of digital rights in the context of AI. Discuss key issues such as privacy, data consent, and control over personal information, including biometric data, in an AI-driven world.
Tech Propaganda and Critical Thinking
Develop critical thinking skills to navigate tech industry claims and AI hype. Learn to identify propaganda, understand the influence of venture capital, and fact-check AI promises and breakthroughs.
Broken Economic Models in AI Development
Critique current economic models driving AI development and explore alternatives. Discuss human-centered design for AI and new frameworks that prioritize societal well-being over pure profit maximization.
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Evaluate ethical implications of AI development through a human-centric lens to propose alternative frameworks that prioritize human wellbeing over corporate interests.
- Identify fundamental concepts of ethical AI to distinguish between human-centric and profit-driven approaches to AI development.
- Synthesize principles of digital rights and privacy to construct a comprehensive framework for protecting human interests in an AI-driven world.
- Evaluate tech industry claims and AI developments to differentiate between genuine advances and marketing hyperbole using critical thinking methods.
- Critique current AI development models to formulate alternative frameworks that better serve human interests and societal wellbeing.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested in AI. You could be an AI developer or data scientist seeking ethical frameworks, a policy maker or legal professional interested in AI governance, or you could be a tech enthusiast concerned about the societal impact of AI.
The course would also benefit students in computer science, ethics, or philosophy as well as historians interested in applying revolutionary concepts to modern issues.
Who will you learn with?
Founder of Pragmatic AI Labs & Executive in Residence at Duke MIDS and Duke AIPI. Former Bay Area CTO and author of multiple O'Reilly books.
Who developed the course?
Pragmatic AI Labs
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