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 (Also, I have cached a 1 hour video where the author talks about this book)
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
2019-04-05: How China turned a city into a prison
2022-01-11: Intel Deletes Reference to Xianjiang after Backlash in China
2022-01-11: Facial recognition as a Pareto Technology
2022-01-11: Texas cities experience phishing via qr codes attached parking meters
2022-01-11: Air Tag Tracking
2022-01-13: Autonomous Weapons
2022-01-13: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist, and They Must Be Banned
2022-01-13: Operation Trojan Shield
2022-01-18: U.S. Airlines Warn of Chaos with the rollout of 5G
2022-01-18: Agricultural Autonomy
2022-01-18: Hume AI
2022-01-18: Will AI Destroy Education?
2022-01-20: The most recent SIGCAS newsletter (2021 Fall)
2022-01-20: The robot revolution continues: the worst warehouse job
2022-01-20: First time: AI named inventor
2022-01-20: Can a robot be arrested? Hold a patent? Pay income taxes
2022-01-20: IRS to require selfies?
2022-01-20: EFF: Williams versus San Francisco
2022-01-20: Dubbing via AI?
2022-01-25: Researchers build AI that builds AI
2022-01-25: The ClearView AI saga continues in Canada
2022-01-25: A right to repair?
2022-01-25: Hacktivists say they hacked Belarus Rail Systems to Stop Russian military buildup
2022-01-25: "Slightly" superhuman hiking?
2022-01-27: Identity theft thrives
2022-01-27: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs tracking mechanisms
2022-01-27: Britain and AI decision-making
2022-01-27: The rise of the robots in Singapore
2022-01-27: Our automated future?
2022-01-27: ID.ME changes its tune on techniques
2022-01-27: Privacy policies and larger considerations
2022-01-27: AI chatbots, admissions, and ethical risks
2022-01-31: When the algorithm is your boss
2022-02-01: The NSA Spies Shaping the Future
2022-02-02: AlphaCode
2022-02-02: Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
2022-02-07: Ghost dogs on the border
2022-02-08: The future of warfare? (From here
2022-02-08: Throwable robots?
2022-02-08: IRS backs off from biometric measures?
2022-02-10: Google Analytics GDPR Breach
2022-02-10: Zoom
2022-02-10: The trade in surveillance meets the world of arms
2022-01-20: First time: AI named inventor
2022-02-15: Robots face many challenges
2022-02-16: Honorlock?
2022-02-22: Copyright Office answers "no" to AI authorship question
2022-02-22: Open Letter on AI
2022-02-24: EU Proposes Data Laws
2022-02-24: Missouri Governor's Office?
2022-02-24: Employment fraud?
2022-02-25: ACM, Ethics, and Corporate Behavior
2022-03-01: Et tu, Apple?
2022-03-03: Warren and Warner write letter to the Treasury
2022-03-08: Echoes in the Uncanny Valley? (Uncanny Valley explanation)
2022-03-10: Money, fraud, and the Internet: who is responsible?
2022-03-10: Explain yourself?
2022-03-22: Dual use for AI
2022-03-22: Cell phones: knowing where you are...
2022-03-22: Privacy Police?
2022-03-22: Itami: Mass surveillance of the elderly
2022-03-22: My wife tracked me for journalism
2022-03-22: This article is spying on you...
2022-03-24: Tools for good... can these be used for bad?
2021-10-19: The advent of cognitive warfare (draft, version 3)
2021-10-19: Innovation Hub's Cognitive Warfare site
2022-03-29: Clearview AI : Ukraine?
2022-03-29: A Brave New World of Nullities
2022-03-29: Whose fault: autonomous entity or human?
2022-03-29: OpenAI and human augmentation
2022-03-29: Hackers gain power of subpoena through fraudulent emergency data requests
2022-03-30: GPT3 grows more impressive
2022-03-30: How your shadow credit score could be used
2022-03-30: Direct interfaces
2022-03-31: Giordano and battlefields
2022-03-31: What other students in computer ethics are thinking
2022-04-05: Would you hire this AI?
2022-04-05: USB-C madness, technological duplicity
2022-04-05: In praise of desktop computing
2022-04-05: The Thin Edge of the Wedge?
2022-04-05: The Thin Edge, part II? (video)
2022-04-05: More robodogs on military bases
2022-04-07: Advanced Persistent Teens
2022-04-07: Why, Worldcoin?
2022-04-07: DALL-E-2 (NY Times version)
2022-04-07: DALL-E
2022-04-07: Robots in space
2022-04-07: Improving Man-Machine Interfaces
2022-04-07: Imaging AI autonomous entity cleared for use
2022-04-10: AI to make triage decisions on the battlefield?
2022-04-10: Speed Cam Anywhere!
2022-04-10: Double your money!
2022-04-10: ACM: Technology and its impact
2022-04-10: Dall-e-2 Friday
2022-04-13: Caltech graduate sentenced to five years federal prison for presentation on cryptocurrency — in North Korea
2022-05-10: AI outperforms humans
2022-05-12: AI goes to war in Ukraine
2022-05-12: The Weapon that Mistook a School Bus for an Ostrich
2022-05-12: AI succeeds at yet another Turing Test: this time in product reviews
2022-05-12: NY Times editorial on NFTs
2022-05-12: OpenSea
2022-05-12: OpenSea, II
2022-05-17: Congressional activity with regard to ClearviewAI
2022-05-17: DHS current client of ClearviewAI
2022-05-17: Digital Dragnet: ICE makes wide use of facial recognition
2022-05-17: When Corporate Interests and International Cyber Agreements Collide
2022-05-24: Imagen: DALL-E 2 now has competition
2022-05-24: AI tells a story, makes illustrations
2022-05-24: Clearview AI fined
2022-05-24: Clearview AI fined
2022-05-24: Deep Fakes become ever-more convincing
2022-05-26: Eutopian Superintelligence?
2022-05-26: AI at work, the best case
2022-05-26: AI at work, in reality
2022-05-31: Superintelligence: AI detects race from x-rays, an ability that humans do not have (Original article
2022-05-31: The professor is definitely not in
2022-05-31: Honorlock?
2022-05-31: The cryptic world of crypto
2022-05-31: What is the truth about Zadira and Peresvet?
2022-06-02: Nokia says 6G will be a revolution in 10 years time
2022-06-02: Discovering the secret language of DALLE-2
2022-06-07: International Law Enforcement and Intergovernmental Cooperation 2022
2022-06-07: Palermo government computing goes out
2022-06-07: Italy warns about Killnet
2022-06-07: Romania and Killnet
2022-06-09: Address to the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group (FELEG)
2022-06-09: Five Eyes Foresee Alarms
2022-06-09: Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group Meets in 2016
2022-06-09: Simulation or Gamefication?
2022-06-09: War Thunder Leaks
2022-06-09: Recent information on the Paige Thompson case
2022-06-09: Update: Capital One was fined in 2020 in regard to the Paige Thompson case
2022-06-09: Inside the mind of the Capital One hacker
2022-06-09: US v. Paige Thompson
2022-06-09: Software development in 2022: Work and ip-washing
2022-06-09: IP-washing aspects of AI generated code
2022-06-09: Meet Amazon's first fully autonomous mobile robot
2022-06-09: HIKvision and the SDN question
2022-06-28: European Parliament's "Framework of ethical aspects of AI, robotics, and related technologies
2022-06-28: European Parliament's proposed set of AI regulationss
2022-06-28: LaMDA?
2022-06-28: Models and Science
2022-06-30: Interview with an entity
2022-06-30: Hacker News debates the interview with an entity
2022-06-30: Searle's Chinese Room argument
2022-07-05: Can a corporation trademark a color?
2022-07-05: Experiments with DALL-E
2022-07-05: Mickey Mouse?
2022-07-07: Code replay attack on the myGovID Scheme
2022-07-07: Can Computers be Mathematicians?
2022-07-07: Copyright in action, 2022
2022-07-07: Wiretapping the world
2022-07-07: Windows11 and webcams
2022-07-12: Burma rolls out Chinese surveillance systems
2022-07-12: Democratization of AI?
2022-07-14: Gaming and toxicity?
Class notes
