<div dir="auto">Thanks Ian. Hopefully without sidetracking Deborah's original inquiry do sigcis members have a sense of how a.i. courses (that are consumable by majors in the humanities) are trending in higher education? Does anyone have some full fledged syllabi to share?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Luke</div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://lfernandez.org">lfernandez.org</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 10:17 AM Ian S. King <<a href="mailto:isking@uw.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">isking@uw.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Luke, <div><br></div><div>If you want to stretch their minds, I would suggest you screen "Colossus: The Forbin Project", one of the earliest cinematic examples of the genre. -- Ian </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Luke Fernandez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke.fernandez@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">luke.fernandez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I have also found that students like playing with Eliza. And actually attempting to emulate Turing tests in the classroom can be fun as well. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No social history of the ethics of a.i. would be complete without also examining how these ethical anxieties have been treated by Hollywood. Students usually already come in with some of their own cultural referents (I Robot is popular). But few are familiar with 2001, the original Blade Runner, HER or Ex Machina. They are all provacative forums for examining a.i. ethical anxieties as well as and the larger social forces that shape these worries.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>Luke<div dir="auto"><a href="http://lfernandez.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">lfernandez.org</a> </div></div><div class="m_-4353800366192205955m_1610135316646452803HOEnZb"><div class="m_-4353800366192205955m_1610135316646452803h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 8:54 AM Yosem Companys <<a href="mailto:companys@stanford.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">companys@stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would add the seminal text by AI and HCI pioneer Terry Winograd and his colleague Fernando Flores:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Computers-Cognition-Foundation-Design/dp/0201112973" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Computers-Cognition-Foundation-Design/dp/0201112973</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>And of course the seminal paper below:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://hearingbrain.org/docs/letvin_ieee_1959.pdf" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hearingbrain.org/docs/letvin_ieee_1959.pdf</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 7:34 AM, Jamie Cohen-Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcohencole@gwu.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">jcohencole@gwu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Kevin, Debbie<div><br></div><div>I also pair the two Weizenbaum texts. For the book I use chapters 1,6 (on computer models of the mind), and the last (on dangers of instrumental reason). When I have seniors then the chapter on programmers as gambling addicts has worked well to stimulate discussion especially after they have read Dreyfus’ Rand paper.</div><div><br></div><div>Which chapters do you use, Kevin? </div><div><span class="m_-4353800366192205955m_1610135316646452803m_435071572592590931m_-1704536621146326582HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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<div>The crucial book is Hubert L. Dreyfus, <i>What computers still can't do. A critique of artificial reason</i> (MIT, 1972. 1992).
<i>The original What computers can't do</i>, is basically a philosophical argumentation. The revised edition has an ample introduction offering a most readible historical view of the debate as it evolved.</div>
<div>AI from its very inception in the 1950s has been accompanied with debates. These debates may have been different in Europe from the US; just like the automation debate in the 1950s was predominantly a socio-economic debate in the US, and when it landed
in Europe it had turned into a cultural debate.</div>
<div>Our colleague Dick van Lente (University of Rotterdam) published on these issues.</div>
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<div>I do read Dreyfus with graduate students. For undergraduates I find J. David Bolter,
<i>Turing's man</i> (from 1984!) still very readible. To students in CS or AI it will always serve as an eye-opener to the worldviews implicit in their discipline - which to me is the key element of an ethical reflection course.</div>
<div>Kind regards,</div>
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<div>I am appealing to the collective for some quick recommendations to help one of my undergraduates interested in the early history of ethics and artificial intelligence. What sorts of articles or books have others used in their classes with undergraduates
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