Artificial Intelligence systems have become increasingly
involved with our lives. These systems can be
used in relatively low-stakes decision making such as
recommender systems but they are also used in
medical contexts too. More recently, wider public
use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and
Midjourney to write documents, reports, and emails,
or create pictures, and logos to use in various ways.
All of these introduce ethical challenges with implications
on data ethics, privacy, bias, sustainability, and
so on. This course will introduce the ethical implications
of artificial intelligence to the students. We will
also discuss our role in this and how to take steps
to minimize harm as people working with big data and
AI (e.g. future researchers, software engineers, or
analysts).
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