This AI Ethics, Law, and Society class aims to provide an introduction of various topics of AI Ethics to help establish a foundation for the students to better understand the importance, design/principles, technology, policy/regulation/governance, implementation, and impact of all aspects of AI ethics. We will discuss these topics from the perspectives of Privacy, Safety, Fairness, Equality, Robustness, Accountability, Explainability, Human dignity, Human rights, Democracy, etc. We will also introduce various use cases and scenarios of challenges in AI ethics (e.g., surveillance, recruitment, autonomous driving, finance, etc.).
Alexa: A Pandora's Box of Risks (Northwestern Kellogg case via Harvard Business School Publishing)
Facebook-Can Ethics Scale in the Digital Age? (Harvard Business School Case #319030)
Google and Project Maven (A): Big Tech, Government and the AI Arms Race (INSEAD Case IN1459)