From Oxford Online, we find these definitions:
philosophy: The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
ethics: Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.
The Canvas class modules are organized by week; new modules are published on Monday, and most activities for most modules occur in that week.
Obligatory xkcd collection:
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Online Ethics-oriented Resources
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
Collection of ethical code URLs from NC State
Computer and Information Ethics (in particular, see the Uniqueness debate between Maner and Johnson)
Books
Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence
Isaac Asimov: I, Robot
Norbert Weiner: The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Soshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Other
Excerpt from The Grand Design episode of "Yes, Prime Minister"
Other Readings
2021-08-26: The Myth of a Superhuman AI
2021-08-31: Flying Humanoid Robot
2021-09-02: FTC bans SpyPhone and CEO from surveillance business
2021-09-02: Victory: Federal Trade Commission Bans Stalkerware Company Conducting Business
2021-09-02: I asked GPT3 about COVID-19 — tts responses shocked me
2021-09-07: The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine
2021-09-07: Operation Rubicon
2021-09-09: Apple's Bug Bounty Ethics
2021-09-09: Juniper: Mystery Attacks Traced to Pentagon Role and Chinese Hackers
2021-09-16: OpenAI Codex
2021-09-16: Project Debater
2020-02-26: Big Data Provides Personalized Pricing
2021-09-17: Tomorrow's AI will reason like humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts
2021-09-23: We need software updates forever
2021-09-23: AI writes code like human beings, bugs and all
2021-09-23: Ransomeware victims not informed that FBI secretly held REvil decryption key
2021-09-23: AI for weed eradication
2021-09-23: Is computer science misnamed?
2021-09-28: Codex at work
2021-09-28: Mayflower revisited, humans need not apply
2021-09-28: Rajasthan blocks internet for testing
2021-09-28: Who owns the copyright?
2021-09-28: Playform.io
2021-09-28: Meet the artist
2021-09-28: GAN becomes CAN
2021-09-29: Live Stream of Beethoven's 10th Symphony on October 9, 2021. (Starts at 12:55, Tallahassee time.)
2021-09-30: AI comments on AI
2021-09-30: Tesla: Full Self-Driving?
2021-09-30: Tesla: Full Self-Driving?
2021-09-30: Another grand success for AI
2021-09-30: Lethal weapon system may have already killed people
2021-10-05: Rise of one time password interceptions bots
2021-10-05: On the nature of mathematics
2021-10-05: Singapore passes foreign interference law; authorities can block Internet content
2021-10-05: A budget for retaliatory cyberwarfare in the UK
2021-10-07: EU moves on biometric mass surveillance
2021-10-12: The future of work is uniquely human
2021-10-12: The State of Surveillance in 2021
2021-10-12: AI Jobs: on the farm and in the forest
2021-10-12: Precrime in the surveillance state
2021-10-13: Humans need not apply: Nissan's Intelligent Factory
2021-10-13: Nissan's press release
2021-10-14: Ghost Robotics, Inc
2021-10-14: Computerized canines to join Team Tyndall
2021-10-14: Ghost Roboticss now makes a lethal robot dog
2021-10-14: Robot future for military dog handlers?
2021-10-14: America's approach to command and control goes peer-to-peer
2021-10-14: Implementing Response AI in the Department of Defense
2021-10-14: AI Principles for DOD (Background for above document)
2021-10-14: What robot dogs can do
2021-10-18: The Pentagon and AI Oracles
2021-10-19: Racing drones soon will outperform humans?
2021-10-19: False Alarms in the Nuclear Age (2001)
2021-10-19: The advent of cognitive warfare (draft, version 3)
2021-10-19: Innovation Hub's Cognitive Warfare site
2021-10-19: Missouri Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaws in state website
2021-10-19: Brian Krebs take on above story
2021-10-19: Genetic AI algorithm development
2021-10-21: AI and employment: Will college involve fewer professors?
2021-10-21: Today's business world: AI fights ransomware
2021-10-21: The Register's Advertorial for above
2021-10-21: Business practices in 2021: Guns on robots?
2021-10-21: Restaurants and robots
2021-10-26: Wikipedia's list of scholarly publishing stings
2021-10-26: Popper's "Science as Falsification"
2021-10-26: New York Times writer attacked by mysterious malware
2021-10-26: A new, relevant xkcd:
2021-10-26: Empirical observation of negligible fairness–accuracy trade-offs in machine learning for public policy
2021-10-28: US Government Owes Over $100 Million Because of Tray/Cart Patent Infringement
2021-10-28: EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month Award" for the same cart/tray patent
2021-10-28: Patent 6,888,460
2021-10-28: Court decision of 2021-10-28
2021-10-28: FSF: Can you trust?
2021-10-28: EFF: Meditations on Trusted Computing
2021-10-28: Trusted Computing Promise and Risk
2021-11-02: Trusting compilers in 2021 (The paper referenced and a website (cross reference this to the much older IDN homograph_attack
2021-11-02: Analyzing complexity for QEMU
2021-11-02: Drone autonomously fights fires?
2021-11-04: Monetizing all human behavior?
2021-11-04: Open source access, sometimes not legal in Sweden?
2021-11-09: The Skinner Box
2021-11-09: The Arms Trade and Pervasive Surveillance Tools
2021-11-16: DOD and AI Ethics
2021-11-16: Biological computation
2021-11-16: Robots in space
2021-11-16: Fighting the next war, U.S.
2021-11-16: Fighting the next war, Russia
2021-11-29: Xenobots: life meets technology
2021-11-29: Self-replicating robots (CNN version) The paper
2021-11-29: Cyberwar not covered
