Lecture: Introduction to ethics of AI - Details

General information

Course name	Lecture: Introduction to ethics of AI
Subtitle
Course number	8.3529
Semester	WiSe 2021/22
Current number of participants	197
Home institute	LE Cognitive Science
participating institutes	Institut für Philosophie
Courses type	Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Tuesday, 19.10.2021 10:00 - 12:00, Room: 01/B01
Type/Form
SWS	2
Primary Language of Instruction	Englisch / English
ECTS points	4

Lecturers

• Prof. Dr. Rainer Mühlhoff

Tutor

• Annemarie Witschas

Rooms and times

01/B01

Tuesday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly (14x)

(online Vips)

Friday, 11.02.2022, Monday, 28.02.2022 10:00 - 12:00

Fields of study

• Veranstaltungen > Cognitive Science > Master-Programm
• Veranstaltungen > Cognitive Science > Bachelor-Programm

Module assignments

• Bachelor of Science Informatik > CS-BWP-PHIL - Philosophy for Cognitive Science valid from WiSe 2019/20
• Bachelor of Science Mathematik > CS-BWP-PHIL - Philosophy for Cognitive Science valid from WiSe 2019/20
• Bachelor of Science Cognitive Science > CS-BWP-PHIL - Philosophy for Cognitive Science valid from WiSe 2019/20
• Master of Science Mathematik > CS-BWP-PHIL - Philosophy for Cognitive Science valid from WiSe 2019/20
• -Fächer-Bachelor Professionalisierung > PHI-Vb1 - Specialization Component I
• -Fächer-Bachelor Professionalisierung > PHI-Vb2_v1 - Specialization Component II

Comment/Description

This lecture provides an introduction to the emerging field of the Ethics of AI. It is open to all interested students of all levels, including those from the humanities, as well as scientific and technical disciplines. The lecture is an ideal starting point to get an orientation in the field and to possibly start engaging with more specialised courses and/or research projects in the context of the Ethics of AI group at the IKW.
The lecture will provide an overview of problems, philosophical theories and methods that comprise the field of Ethics of AI. This includes both the philosophical foundations of ethics and critical theory as well as different technological phenomena and legal aspects of AI. A particular focus will be contemporary data-driven and machine learning-based AI technology and its applications in digital consumer media. As we will see, questions of social equality and fairness are central to today's ethical concerns about AI, so that ethics needs to adopt a societal perspective, analysing constellations of power, discrimination and subordination that relate to AI technology. We will also touch on relevant legal debates such as privacy and data protection legislation and ask the questions of how to actually do ethics of AI in interdisciplinary collaborations.

This lecture will be offered every winter term. In the summer term there will be a seminar that elaborates in more detail on some of the problems covered in the lecture.

There will be a Klausur at the end of the semester to earn 4 ECTS points.

The lecture will be taught online if the pandemic does not allow to fit everyone in thr same room.