20740037 - ETHICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The aim of the course is to provide theoretical knowledge and experimental research that explain social cognition, i.e., the way we think and act in interaction with others, emphasizing how contexts can modulate this process.


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Programme

This course aims to give the students the basic concepts of applied ethics (with a specific interest in ethics of artificial intelligence) and the relation between ethics and communication (with a specific interest in film communication).
The goal of the course is that the students understand these fundamental issues of moral philosophy. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand the essential features of these discussions.


Core Documentation

For the students who will write two brief papers, as explained by the instructor during the course, and will pass the pre-exam at the end of the course:
1. M. De Caro, S.F. Magni, M.S. Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (only the chapters indicated in class by the instructor )
2. M. De Caro, B. Giovanola, Intelligenze, Il Mulino

Program for the students who will not pass the pre-exam at the end of the course:
1. M. De Caro, S.F. Magni, M.S. Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell'etica, Mondadori (chapters 12-21)
2. M. De Caro, B. Giovanola, Intelligenze, Il Mulino
3. A. Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, https://phil415.pbworks.com/f/TuringComputing.pdf



Type of delivery of the course

The exam will be oral. There will be a preliminary exam with a reduced syllabus for attending students (which will include the writing of two short papers)

Type of evaluation

The exam will be oral. There will be a preliminary exam with a reduced syllabus for attending students (which will include the writing of two short papers)