AI of Ethics

• Introduction
• What Is Artificial Intelligence?
• And What, Precisely, Is Ethics?
• What Does This Course Cover?
• Why AI Ethics Is So Exciting
• Why Should Anyone Want to Study AI Ethics?
• Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to AI Ethics
• And What Are You Bringing to This Course?
• Frequent Criticisms of Ethics
• The Boundaries and Limits of Ethics
• The Approach of This Course
• Developing Ethical Autonomy
• Why Examine Underlying Concepts in AI Ethics?
• Why Am I Writing This Course?
• What Is to Come
• AI Ethics: Why Now?
• Same or Different? What's Special About AI Ethics?
• Common Themes and Varieties of Questions in AI Ethics
• Ethical Questions in AI Currently Receiving Attention
• A Brief History of AI Ethics
• AI Ethics Now: Who, What, Where, and Why?
• AI Ethics, Law, Policy, Regulation, and Ethics Guidance
• Looking Forward: What Is Our Job Now?
• Case Study: An Indigenous AI Report

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• Introduction: A Simple Account of Methods in Applied Ethics
• The Challenges from AI for Methodology in Applied Ethics
• Common Assumptions About the Nature of Ethics, and Their Influence on Methodology in Applied Ethics
• Methodology in Applied Ethics: The Stories We Tell
• The Nature and Value of Intelligence
• Values Underlying the Use of Data
• Human Nature
• Introduction to Normative Ethical Theories
• Normative Ethical Theories: Consequentialism
• Normative Ethical Theories: Deontological Approaches
• Normative Ethical Theories: Virtue Ethics

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• Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and AI as a Technology
• Comparing AI to Humans
• A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology
• Technology and Attitudes Towards Nature
• The Implicit Values of Technology
• Communication Through New Technologies
• Metaethics
• The Theory of Knowledge
• Philosophy of Language
• Questions in Metaphysics: What Is Reality?
• An Account of Personhood: Respect for Persons as a Fundamental Ideal
• Some Contemporary Models of Personhood and Their Ethical Implications
• Interlude: Mind and Body
• Are Conceptions of Personhood Too Focused on the Cognitive and the Rational?
• Personhood Continued: Two Approaches to Personhood, Agency, and Machines
• The Limits and Boundaries of Persons

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• Introduction
• What Concepts and Tools Can We Bring to These Questions?
• Why Is AI Being Used to Address the Online Harms Question?
• Content Moderation for Online Harms: What Is Needed?
• Challenges for AI in Tackling Online Harms
• Bias and the Production of ‘AI Ethics’
• AI, Online Content, Persons, Self, and Society
• The Use of AI: Reshaping Ethical Questions?
• And Just to Finish
• AI in the Workplace
• AI, Employment and Unemployment, and Future Visions
• Superintelligence, Existential Risk, and the Control Problem
• Longtermism in AI

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• Introduction
• The Purposeful Universe: Value Beyond the Human
• Contrasting Frameworks Behind Visions of AI and Approaches to Ethics
• The Moral Status of AI and Robot Rights
• Machines as Moral Agents: Could Artificial Intelligence Enhance Human Morality?

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