CS19/PHIL27 Schedule

We may adjust this schedule throughout the semester. It is the student's responsibility to review this schedule weekly for the most current assignments.

There is one required book that you need to purchase for this class: Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford. All other readings are available below as PDFs.

WEEK	DAY	ANNOUNCEMENTS	TOPIC & READING	LAB
1	Jan 24		Ethics primer Langdon Winner Mythinformation in the high-tech era
2	Jan 31		AI and Machine learning primer Chapters from You look like a thing and I love you by Janelle Shane Chapter 1: What is AI? Chapter 3: How does it actually learn?	Lab 1: Introduction to neural networks
3	Feb 07		Environment Kate Crawford Chapter 1: Earth Nathan Ensmenger The cloud is a factory
4	Feb 14		Labor Kate Crawford Chapter 2: Labor Mar Hicks Sexism is a feature, not a bug Movie Top secret Rosies: The female computers of WWII
5	Feb 21	Virtual lecture by Zack Ontiveros	Chatbots Aatish Bhatia Watch an AI learn to write by reading nothing but Jane Austin In the Financial Times Sept. 12 2023 Generative AI exists because of the transformer: This is how it works In Anthropic May 9, 2023 Claude's Constitution Lecture Slides	Lab 2: Exploring Chatbots
6	Feb 28		Data Kate Crawford Chapter 3: Data Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan A sneak peak into the book AI Snake Oil Examples from the ImageNet task
7	Mar 06	Robert Zipp visit	Evaluation Os Keyes and Jeanie Austin Feeling fixes: Mess and emotion in algorithm audits Machine Bias in ProPublica, May 2016 How we analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm in ProPublica, May 2016
	Mar 13	Spring Break
8	Mar 20	Medium paper due	Algorithmic Decision Making Kathleen Creel and Deborah Hellman The algorithmic leviathan: Arbitrariness, fairness, and opportunity in algorithmic decision-making systems Podcast Hi-Phi Nation The problem with gig work
9	Mar 27		Classification Kate Crawford Chapter 4: Classification	Lab 3: Classification
10	Apr 03		Classifying Faces and Emotion Kate Crawford Chapter 5: Affect AI weighs in on debate about universal facial expressions Movie Coded Bias
11	Apr 10	Sorelle Friedler visit	Surveillance, State, and Law Kate Crawford Chapter 6: State Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
12	Apr 17	Tracy Llanera visit	Radicalization and Disinformation Engin Bozdag Bias in algorithmic filtering and personalization C. Thi Nguyen Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles Tracy Llanera The misogyny paradox and the alt-right
13	Apr 24		Embodiment, Robots Thomas Nagel What is it like to be a bat? Hubert Dreyfus Chps. 7-9 from What computers can't do Movie The machine that changed the world: The thinking machine	Lab 4: What is it like to be a robot?
14	May 01		Justice Kate Crawford Conclusion: Power Basl, Sandler and Tiell Getting from commitment to content in AI and data ethics: Justice and explainability