CSCI 240 Section 01 Fall 2018 tentative schedule

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Building Artificial Minds

Make sure you check this periodically, I expect that this schedule will be modified in some ways throughout the semester

Date	Topic/Theme	Readings/Materials (readings to be done before class)
16-Jan	Introduction & Ethics	Machine Intelligence makes Human Morals more Important, Moral Machine
18-Jan	Cognitive Dissonance	Cognitive Dissonance (1962), The Cognitive Dissonance Hiding Behind Strong Brands, Using Cognitive Dissonance Theory to Understand Privacy Behavior (2017)
23-Jan	Computing and Criminal Justice	When Machine Learning is Facially Invalid (2018), Weapons of Math Destruction - Chapter 5 (2016), The New Science of Sentencing, Calling Bullshit case study, Faceception
25-Jan	Ubiquity of Data in/on Society (student)	Critical Questions for Big Data (2012), Big Data - A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights (2016), The Era of Blind Faith in Big Data Must End
30-Jan	Privacy	Multiparty Privacy in Social Media (2018), A Precautionary Approach to Big Data Privacy (2015), United States of Secrets, In High-Tech Cities, No More Potholes, but What About Privacy?, I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone, What the G.D.P.R., Europe’s Tough New Data Law, Means for You, GDPR makes it easier to get your data, but that doesn’t mean you’ll understand it
01-Feb	Privacy (student)	Privacy in the Age of Google and Facebook (2011), Colleges Mine Data on Their Applicants (2019), Facebook's Tracking of Non-Users Ruled Illegal Again, What will the future without secrets look like, [OPTIONAL] What the "right to be forgotten" menas for privacy in the digital age (2015), Inside the Biggest Celebrity Hacking Scandal in History (2014), Why Privacy Matters
06-Feb	Social Media & Social Capital	Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks? (2016), China's Social Credit System (2018), Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?, Situating China's Social Credit System in History and Context, Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking
08-Feb	Social Media & Social Capital (In-class movie, BM S3E1)
13-Feb	Social Media & Social Capital (student)	Is LinkedIn making you more successful? The informational benefits derived from public social media (2016), Measuring Social Capital Investment: Scale Development and Examination of Links to Social Capital and Perceived Stress (2015), How social networks can save lives when disasters strike, How Does Social Media Affect Social Capital, No, China isn’t Black Mirror – social credit scores are more complex and sinister than that
15-Feb	Diversity & Computing	Big Data and Its Exclusions, The subtle ways colleges discriminate, Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?, Technology is Biased, Is your software racist? Facebook Hate Speech Quiz
20-Feb	Diversity & Computing (student)	Fostering Gender Diversity in Computing, Diversity Gaps in CS, Affirmative Action Lawsuit against Harvard, Why are there few women in tech?, Women and Minorities in Tech
22-Feb	Computing, Work, and Wealth (student)	Microworkers as Research Participants-Does Underpaying Turkers lead to Cognitive Dissonance? (2018), The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term, Robot Reality Check, The coders of Kentucky, Automation Puts Jobs in Peril, How AI can save our humanity, Automation could kill 73 million U.S. jobs by 2030, The Death of a Sick Day
27-Feb	Intelligent Systems in Computing and society	Mind Design Chapter 7 [Minds, Brains, and Programs] (1980), The Morphospace of Consciousness (2018), The Doomsday Invention, Thinking Machines, From Artificial Intelligence to Consciousness
01-Mar	Intelligent Systems in Computing and society (In-class movie, WW S1E1)
06-Mar	Intelligent Systems in Computing and society (student)	A Survey of Motion Planning and Control Techniques for Self-Driving Urban Vehicles, In with the new? Generational differences shape population technology adoption patterns in the age of self-driving vehicles, Disabled Americans deserve the benefits of self-driving cars, To Make Self-Driving Cars Safe, We Also Need Better Roads and Infrastructure, Did Uber Just Ruin Self-Driving Cars For The Rest Of Us?
08-Mar	The Digital Divide	Digital Divide: Impact of Access (2017), The Contemporary US Digital Divide (2015), Providing Equitable Access to Computing Education (2018), How the internet keeps poor people in poor neighborhoods
13-Mar	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
15-Mar	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
20-Mar	Computing and Politics	Do Artifacts Have Politics? (1980), A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter, Why am I seeing this?, The Secretive Organization Quietly Spending Millions on Facebook Political Ads, Russian Disinformation...Ukraine
22-Mar	Computing and Politics (Black Mirror, Season 2 Episode 3)
27-Mar	Computing and War	Stuxnet: Dissecting a Cyberwarfare Weapon (2011), Pros and Cons of Autonomous Weapons Systems (2017), Cracking Stuxnet, Autonomous Weapons Would Take Warfare To A New Domain, Without Humans, A New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments
29-Mar	Computing and War (Black Mirror, Season 3 Episode 5)
03-Apr	Computing and War (student)	Stuxnet and the Future of Cyber War (2011), The future of technology in warfare, NATO Cyber defense, Governments don’t understand cyber warfare. We need hackers, Military Robots and the future of war
05-Apr	Flash Talks
08-Apr	Poster Presentations
10-Apr	Poster Reflections
12-Apr	NO CLASS
17-Apr	Computing and Simulated Environments and Life after Death	Are we living in a computer simulation? (Bostrom, 2003), Digital Twins (2018), The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds (2007), Are we living in a computer simulation? (Bach, 2016), This cartoon explains why Elon Musk thinks we’re characters in a computer simulation. He might be right., Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?, Life in Second Life
19-Apr	Computing and Simulated Environments and Life after Death (In-class movie)
24-Apr	Computing and Simulated Environments and Life after Death (student)	Coalescing Minds (2012), A framework for approaches to transfer of a mind's substrate (2012), A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”, Why You Should Believe in the Digital Afterlife, The science and ethics of uploading human consciousness, The Perils and the Promises of Mind Uploading
26-Apr	Wrap up and course reflection
29-Apr	Last day of classes! Medium Post due by 11:59pm