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Saturday, November 17, 2018
Colleges Grapple With Teaching the Technology and Ethics of A.I. - Alina Tugend, NY Times
David Danks, a professor of philosophy and psychology at Carnegie Mellon, just started teaching a class, “A.I, Society and Humanity.” The class is an outgrowth of faculty coming together over the past three years to create shared research projects, he said, because students need to learn from both those who are trained in the technology and those who are trained in asking ethical questions. “The key is to make sure they have the opportunities to really explore the ways technology can have an impact — to think how this will affect people in poorer communities or how it can be abused,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/education/learning/colleges-grapple-with-teaching-ai.html