From Oxford's former offering, 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 usually published on Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a holiday), 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
2023-01-09: ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware
2023-01-10: A conversation with an AI emulation of Winston Churchill at https://beta.character.ai
2023-01-12: About GPT-3's first academic publication submission
2023-01-12: GPT's first academic publication submission
2023-01-12: Frank dissimulation
2023-01-12: Responsible technology?
2023-01-17: AI and the classroom
2023-01-17: Stable Diffusion Litigation: Ethics Imposed by Legal Diktat?
2023-01-17: The ethics of your voice, someone else's words (more detail on what various portions of this mean can be found here.)
2023-01-17: ChatGPT on CNET Articles Written by (another?) AI
2023-01-17: CNET Responds
2023-01-19: Follow up academic status of AI: ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove
2023-01-19: Lengthy NY Times podcast/transcript on people discovering the power of ChatGPT: Did AI Just Get Too Smart?
2023-01-19: Eutopia or Dystopia? 'Imagine turning your Slack into a super-smart AI-powered chief of staff that can answer any questions you had about what’s going on.'
2023-01-19: Computer ethics in action? Shutterstock Leads the Way to Bring AI-generated Content to All
2023-01-19: AI and political lobbying
2023-01-19: Large Language Models as Corporate Lobbyists
2023-01-19: Atlas gets a grip
2023-01-24: The End of Programming
2023-01-24: What Do ChatGPT and AI-Based Automatic Program Generation mean for the Future of Software?
2023-01-24: AI's Jurassic Park Moment
2023-01-24: Is this some sort of solution? Human ID
2023-01-24: The AI Ethicist's Dirty Hands Problem
2023-01-24: Is Having AI Generate Text Cheating?
2023-01-24: The future of StackOverflow? ChatGPT AI Generated Answers Temporarily Banned from StackOverflow
2023-01-24: Can AI Demonstrate Creativity?
2023-01-24: Ethical AI is not about AI
2023-01-24: Futility? Teaching in the Age of AI Means Getting Creative
2023-01-24: 'Ethics and Computer Science' as imagined by SlidesGPT.
2023-01-26: Lawyers defeat AI use in the courtroom
2023-01-31: AI generates art: who owns it?
2023-01-31: AI goes after bugs
2023-02-02: World Economic Forum Session on Brain Transparency
2023-02-02: AI now powers Teams
2023-02-02: Deep Face Live
2023-02-02: Pentesting, 2023
2023-02-07: My printer is extorting me
2023-02-07: Augmentation in the financial world
2023-02-07: Augmentation in the world of programming
2023-02-07: Google AI "principles", in light of Bard's announcement
2023-02-07: Bard
2023-02-07: Cognitive warfare extended to cyberspace
2023-02-07: Economic incentives promote change in labelling
2023-02-07: Voice changer beta
2023-02-07: Totalitarian states can participate in the AI revolution on their own terms
2023-02-07: High tech warfare becomes more affordable
2023-02-08: The Wall Street Journal: Uncertain Economy Spurs Growth in AI-Powered Office Automation
2023-02-14: Test of AI as fighter pilot
2023-02-14: Better without AI?
2023-02-14: MIT no AI license?
2023-02-14: Illusion Diffusion
2023-02-14: Future Perfect?
2023-02-14: The future of education: AI gamefies you
2023-02-14: New frontiers for human augmentation
2023-02-14: Forging ahead in protein design using AI
2023-02-14: Chase's view on Embedded responsible AI
2023-02-14: The future of education: AI gamefies you
2023-02-14: New frontiers for human augmentation
2023-02-14: Forging ahead in protein design using AI
2023-02-14: Chase's view on Embedded responsible AI
2023-02-16: Inside of ChatGPT?
2023-02-16: Generative AI, everywhere
2023-02-16: More text-to-image, courtesy of Google's Muse
2023-02-16: And, then, the furniture was moving...
2023-02-16: And, on cue, augmenting AI with computer-based tooling
2023-02-21: Regulation, laws, and the three laws of robotics?
2023-02-21: Robodogs controlled by soldiers' thoughts
2023-02-21: Taxi and other driving by remote operator
2023-02-21: Technological developments from the Ukranian-Russian conflict
2023-02-21: More on such technological progress
2023-02-21: The State Department on "Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy"
2023-02-21: Context of the State Department's Norms Document
2023-02-21: A ToM test, AI advances to intuitive capability of a human 9-year-old?
2023-02-21: Whispers of AI's modular future?
2023-02-21: Whisper.cpp code
2023-02-22: Scott Aaronson's take on GPT
2023-02-23: Build your own chatbot!
2023-02-23: Another chatbot construction technique
2023-02-23: The Copyright Office rescinds copyright granted on AI-generated art
2023-02-23: AI and the art of persuasion
2023-02-23: U.S. Navy takes delivery of ship that can operate autonomously for up to 30 days
2023-02-23: ChatGPT has already decreased my income security
2023-02-23: Magazine overwhelmed by submissions of AI-generated stories
2023-02-23: AI-generated 2023-02-28: Congress's considerations in banning TikTok
2023-02-28: More on TikTok
2023-02-28: Not just our students...
2023-02-28: Biological computers to keep up with silicon AI? Organoid intelligence (OI) enters the fray
2023-02-28: The Brave New World of Menu-making
2023-03-06: Vocaloids
2023-03-07: Treat ChatGPT as a student, lie to it, and observe results?
2023-03-07: Langchain
2023-03-07: Sumplete
2023-03-07: A short history of Sumplete?
2023-03-07: Human need not apply
2023-03-09: PALM-e
2023-03-09: The First Amendment and AI? Questions raised at the Supreme Court --- by a Justice of the Court
2023-03-09: Lawfare blogs on AI and the First Amendment
2023-03-21: Hands, also
2023-03-21: Mind probes advance
2023-03-21: Individualized instruction
2023-03-21: Still in the loop?
2023-03-21: AI, ethics, and industry
2023-03-21: Microsoft, ethics, and all that
2023-03-21: Microsoft, ethics, and all that
2023-03-21: GPT lists jobs from Hacker News
2023-03-23: Ask Sage, your friendly government advisor
2023-03-23: Richard Stallman, in Steve Jobs' voice
2023-03-23: A very strong Turing test
2023-03-23: Insurance decisions, made by AI
2023-03-23: Russian Weather, redux
2023-03-23: AI, on the law
2023-03-23: AI and plagiarism
2023-03-23: Jobs, of the future and the now
2023-03-23: More on jobs of the now and the future
2023-03-23: Workers Embrace ChatGPT Despite Their Bosses' Fears
2023-03-28: Clearview AI: More than a million searches performed for law enforcement
2023-03-28: Generative AI and humans in the workplace?
2023-03-28: GPT-4 and AGI, research from Microsoft
2023-03-28: OpenAI's mission statement
2023-03-28: Chronicle of Higher Education: Writing assignments in the age of GPT-4
2023-03-30: Pause Giant AI Experiments (Future of Life Institute)
2023-03-30: The Open Letter is not enough
2023-03-30: Pausing AI development is not enough: we need to shut it all
2023-03-30: Advances in robotic dog technology
2023-03-30: Interview with the author of "Battle for your Brain"
2023-03-30: The British governments blase approach
2023-03-30: Ars comprehensive collection of articles on pausing AI
2023-04-03: AI as CEO
2023-04-03: Trust transitivity?
2023-04-03: "Computer programming"/"learn to code" becomes "prompt engineering"?
2023-04-05: Our approach to AI safety
2023-04-05: If not an imitation game, how about a deviation one? (Also a term from game theory, amusingly enough)
2023-04-05: Intellectual property, in 2023?
2023-04-05: OpenAI and the future of education
2023-04-05: And, so what is privacy, anyway?
2023-04-05: Revolutionizing the economy?
2023-04-11: Auto-GPT
2023-04-11: Literally anything?
2023-04-11: The voice is no longer unique
2023-04-13: New York's Dystopian Developments
2023-04-13: GPS: On the run?
2023-04-13: New tools of the security trade
2023-04-13: Debugging in these days of AI
2023-04-13: Ars' version of debugging story
2023-04-13: Video in the age of AI
2023-04-13: We call it human progress, but we seem to actually be seeing far more AI progress (viz., AI Robotics
2023-04-18: LLMs and ethical dilemmas (Synopsi)
2023-04-18: Swatting as a service
2023-04-18: Augmentation, quite literally
2023-04-18: Security via robot
2023-04-18: German artist refuses photographic award
2023-04-20: A calculator for the mind (Leibniz's program completed?)
2023-04-20: Sovereignty and whose laws will rule the Internet?
2023-04-20: Public Interest Technologist
2023-05-15: Developer-centric search engine
2023-05-15: Can GPT pass my programming courses?
2023-05-15: The end of programming as we know it?
2023-05-16: OpenAI --> ClosedAI? (Hacker News discussion of this item)
2023-05-17: Geoffrey Hinton and his concerns about AI
2023-05-18: February 2023
2023-05-18: Explicability in neural networks
2023-05-18: Governments and the connected world
2023-05-18: AI says you failed
2023-05-23: NY Times: Surgeon General on Social Media
2023-05-23: Music without end? Blotterstream[ing]? (HackerNews discussion from the author)
2023-05-23: In my own handwriting?
2023-05-24: Governance of Superintelligence
2023-05-24: Displacement?
2023-05-24: Evolutionary dead-end?
2023-05-25: AI, on the forefront of scientific research
2023-05-25: OpenAI and regulation: a reversal of earlier pleas?
2023-05-25: It's not just a stochastic parrot?
2023-05-25: FISA, privacy, and pervasive surveillance
2023-05-25: Wall Street Journal calls for the abolition of "FISA court"
2023-05-25: AI? Superintelligence? Does not exist, and is not any sort of threat
2023-05-25: CACM asks: Should robots have rights or rites?
2023-05-25: UNESCO: AI and ethics
2023-05-25: EPIC's Public Voice Guidelines for AI
2023-05-25: AI in healthcare
2023-05-30: Eating disorders now handled by lackluster AI
2023-05-30: Another open letter on AI risk mitigation
2023-05-30: AI assistant?
2023-05-30: AI as artificial person?
2023-06-01: Was Bard trained on Gmail data?
2023-06-06: Turing test? No, we demand superior abilities!
2023-06-06: AI Ethics Governance
2023-06-06: Japan, AI, and copyright
2023-06-07: Sorting and AI; not a revolution but more of an evolution
2023-06-08: Robot gardening, as a Turing test
2023-06-08: Robot guide
2023-06-08: Surveillance society?
2023-06-08: Health records via GPT4?
2023-06-08: CNET and AI?
2023-06-08: Apple Vision Pro
2023-06-13: Nature and AI?
2023-06-13: ChatGPT takes the pulpit
2023-06-27: Your terminal, reimagined by AI
2023-06-27: Decision time for taxis
2023-06-27: John Maynard Keynes on the future of employment
2023-06-27: The triumph of "neuronics"?
2023-06-27: AI helps you form opinions
2023-06-29: National Geographic de-staffs
2023-06-29: Software development in 2023
2023-07-06: Police Are Requesting Self-Driving Car Footage for Video Evidence
2023-07-06: AI and programming, 2023
2023-07-06: Top 1% in creativity?
2023-07-06: ?
2023-07-11: Let's Encrypt Shortens Its Trust Path
2023-07-11: Root of trust?
2023-07-18: AI system allows cops to identify people by driving habits
2023-07-18: You cannot hide from us: "We will find you"
2023-07-18: WormGPT
2023-07-18: Tax preparers seek new revenue
2023-07-18: Irresponsible professional behavior?
2023-07-18: We are all in jeopardy of being replaced by machines?
2023-07-20: A different open letter on the future of AI
2023-07-20: The Beeb's version
2023-07-20: Stability AI: Most outsourced coders will be gone
2024-01-11: China cracks Apple's AirDrop service metadata
2024-01-11: FTC and X-Mode
2024-01-11: On the origins of X-Mode and Drunk Mode
2024-01-11: Blogging with GPT-4
2024-01-11: Rabbit for sale
2024-01-11: Duolingo, humans need not apply?
2024-01-11: AI and who will code the future?
2024-01-16: The non-human manner: AI, as a doctor? (the referenced paper is available at 2401.05654.pdf
2024-01-16: State of the art in voice cloning?
2024-01-16: AI goes to war?
2024-01-16: BBC Business: AI proliferation in the workplace
2024-01-16: Gatekeeping: Open source, AI, and the right to participate in the AI revolution
2024-01-16: World Economic Forum 2024: WEF recognizes a year of AI revolution
2024-01-16: World Economic Forum 2024 ponders the intersection of geopolitical tensions and technology
2024-01-16: The drive to replace natural intelligence with artificial intelligence
2024-01-17: In the Internet of Things, a battery passport
2024-01-17: Who owns this sentence?
2024-01-18: FUSUS, AI, and mapping the world
2024-01-18: Legal ruminations on AI (for more background, consult Congresswoman Salazar's webpage at the U.S. House of Representatives
2024-01-18: Buggy software accounts for problematic prosecutions
2024-01-23: Progress, robotically
2024-01-23: Robotics, on the work floor
2024-01-23: Robotics and auto assembly
2024-01-23: "Data Protection Review Court", by executive order?
2024-01-23: Members of the "Data Protection Review Court" named
2024-01-23: Executive order on "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy" Artificial Intelligence
2024-01-24: DNA =?= facial recognition (archived version here)
2024-01-25: AI in the workplace: campus marketing in the AI revolution
2024-01-25: Professional ethics in action: new ethical guidelines for the use of AI in Public Relations
2024-01-25: AI looms in the world's cyberwars
2024-01-25: Lumiere, AI video generation from Google
2024-01-26: North Korea using generative AI for cyberattacks
2024-01-26: Connected Vehicle Interface
2024-01-26: Deception: Inducing malicious backdoors in LLMs
2024-01-29: Gambling, enforcing Australian social rules
2024-01-29: AI and facial estimation
2024-01-29: IDSCAN for bars
2024-01-29: Who is next at the bar?
2024-01-30: Reasonable expectation of privacy?
2024-01-30: An analysis of the NSA data broker scandal
2024-01-30: An "executive order" pursuant to The Defense Production Act? My, how our "industrial base" has changed...
2024-01-30: Want to understand your customers? Simulate them with AI!
2024-01-30: Not billions of old exposures rehashed, but a brand-new set of 1+ million patient records
2024-02-01: Scott Aronson discusses the relationship between the "Simulation Hypothesis" and Penrose's work in above link
2024-02-01: Penrose's best known work on the subject
2024-02-01: The ethics of hacking other people's equipment...
2024-02-01: Neuralink: the ethics of direct augmentation of humanity with digital capabilities
2024-02-01: Connectome Neuromorphics chips
2024-02-01: AI ethics in the commercial sphere?
2024-02-01: The race for the general robotic brain
2024-02-06: Better Call GPT
2024-02-06: Collaborating with an AI
2024-02-06: It was all fake?
2024-02-06: "Peer" review?
2024-02-08: Augmentation or displacement?
2024-02-08: All the music?
2024-02-09: The ethics of fast memory copying...
2024-02-09: Terms of service versus advertising copy?
2024-02-09: FCC: AI voices and robocalls do not mix
2024-02-09: Ethical aspirations for AI... (the model card for Goody2)
2024-02-13: The AI arms race
2024-02-13: AI and nuclear weapons
2024-02-13: AI arms races, from Foreign Policy magazine
2024-02-13: Open source AI: at the beck and call of government?
2024-02-13: Deepfakes: intellectual property?
2024-02-13: From Digital Sovereignty to AI Sovereignty?
2024-02-13: ACM offers SWOT advice
2024-02-13: The Autonomy Economy: Who owns its intellectual property?
2024-02-14: OpenAI "disrupts" state actors?
2024-02-14: Apple, IOS, and European gaming
2024-02-14: USPTO issues guidance for AI-assisted inventions
2024-02-15: Propanganda operations and AI?
2024-02-15: Government sponsors research by AI?
2024-02-15: Gemini status at Google
2024-02-15: Digital twinning in the large: Google's Gemini
2024-02-15: The Report on Gemini 1.5Pro
2024-02-15: Gemini 1.5 Pro, multimodal at the movies
2024-02-15: Gemini 1.5 Pro, multimodal programming chops
2024-02-15: Abraham Lincoln's patent
2024-02-15: An analysis of Lincoln's work
2024-02-15: An analysis of the social and political context of Lincoln's patent
2024-02-16: Blame the AI?
2024-02-16: A new Turing-type tests: Is this natural intelligence or is it AI?
2024-02-19: AI and health care
2024-02-19: AI, sovereignty, and Google
2024-02-20: Brain implants: cooperative computing or invasive autonomy eradication?
2024-02-20: University of Michigan pioneers new markets
2024-02-20: Whose responsibility is it: the AI, the company, or ...?
2024-02-20: Sovereignty, crime, and privacy, all mixed into a single trans-European case
2024-02-20: AI and robocalls, 2024
2024-02-20: A base level of crime
2024-02-22: Reddit trains AI
2024-02-22: The business of cyber-intrusion in the world's largest nation
2024-02-27: Courts consider content moderation and First Amendment issues
2024-02-28: White Houses issues executive order on American personal data
2024-02-29: Change of control issue
2024-02-29: Vending machine, et tu?
2024-03-05: Natural intelligence attempts to grok AI's grokking 2024-03-05: Software developers, AI, and the future of coding
2024-03-05: P-Value dilemmas
2024-03-05: Bots account for more than 12 percent of "upwork" applications
2024-03-05: Nvidia CEO predicts coding's demise as a profession
2024-03-06: Prompt engineering was never a viable career path
2024-03-07: AI written, AI read
2024-03-07: Grading with AI
2024-03-07: The current work environment for coding: more QA, less coding time
2020-03-02: 2020: Rome Call for AI Ethics
2024-03-07: 2024: The current status
2024-03-19: Peer review, et tu? (The paper is here)
2024-03-19: AI schedules your day of studies
2024-03-20: AlphaGo revolutionized human play of Go
2024-03-21: The Not-so-true People Search Network
2024-03-21: People Search Problems?
2024-03-26: Simply News, AI-style
2024-03-26: AI: Open Source for Everyone, or Professionalization? The Cathedral and the Bazaar in 2024
2024-03-27: Plenty of partners in data
2024-03-28: AI also experiences "memes"
2024-03-28: Gaussian avatars get better all the time
2024-03-28: Digital reconstruction gets better all the time
2024-03-28: Specialized news site for digital reconstruction/twinning: RadianceFields.com
2024-03-28: From LLM to VLM (visual-language models): Robotics made easy by large-scale visual data?
2024-03-28: Governments puzzle over how to control AI
2024-03-28: U.S. Government Mandates Chief AI Officers
2024-03-28: Department of Homeland Security embraces AI
2024-04-01: AI apocalypse is only possible, not inevitable
2024-04-02: XZ timeline
2024-04-02: Gentoo developers work on the XZ issue
2024-04-02: Umm...
2024-04-02: Magic Security Dust!
2024-04-02: Vulnerabilities in the python world
2024-04-02: Analysis of the larger landscape around XZ-like work
2024-04-04: Hacking free software song
2024-04-04: Hacking free software song
2024-04-04: And the last ...
2024-04-04: Protonmail criticizes Microsoft's Outlook
2024-04-09: AIOS: LLM Agent Operating System (background paper)
2024-04-09: Autonomous weapon systems and targeting civilians
2024-04-09: The ethics of automated warfare and artificial intelligence
2024-04-09: Generative Artificial Intelligence is simply a waste of our time and money
2024-04-09: Shortcut to programming chops?
2024-04-09: Compute pi using a monte carlo method
2024-04-11: NIST's AI Risk Management Framework
2024-04-11: Suno: MIT License
2024-04-11: In the race to pervasive AI, Google's latest offerings
2024-04-11: Corporations behaving badly: IBM's struggles
2024-04-11: Google Vides for the workplace?
2024-04-11: Foundational ideas for Google Vids
2024-04-11: Technology, war, and hackers
2024-04-11: Kellog-Briand comes to Military Use of AI?
2024-04-11: Verification and autonomous weapon bans? (A Washington Treaty 100 years later?)
2024-04-11: Texas: mass testing of exams graded by AI
2024-04-12: As usual, the medical industry fails the basics in the Information Age
2024-04-16: Really bad interface design: Wrong couple divorced when lawyer pushes the wrong button
2024-04-16: Warfare in the Age of AI
2024-04-16: Stop Killer Robots
2024-04-16: Stop autonomous weapons
2024-04-16: Universities and and AI policies
2024-04-16: Slaughterbots
2024-04-18: Did AI and copyright issues just become much more complex?
2024-04-18: CERN for AI?
2024-04-18: Ethics and law intersect at the European Commission
2024-04-18: AI and eye assessments
2024-04-18: A race to extinction?
2024-04-18: VASA-1
2024-04-18: Government meets AI, AI wins?