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COMP 351: Ethics for Computing and Information Systems
COMP 351: Ethics for Computing and Information Systems
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Unit 1: Introduction
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Unit 2: Ethical Orientation
IDRlabs. (2025).
Philosopher Personality Test
. Retrieved May 6, 2025, from https://www.idrlabs.com/philosopher-personality/test.php
Rahwan, I., Bonnefon, J.-F., Shariff, A., Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Chang, P., & Tang, D. (n.d.).
Moral Machine
. Retrieved May 6, 2025, from https://www.moralmachine.net/
Unit 3: Critical and Logical Skill Assessment and Development
Columbia University. (n.d.).
Commonly used mathematical notation.
Retrieved May 6, 2025, from https://www.columbia.edu/~is375/Mathematical%20Notation.pdf
Khan Academy. (n.d.).
Conditional reasoning and logical equivalence.
Retrieved May 6, 2025, from https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/lsat/lsat-lessons/logic-toolbox-new/a/logic-toolbox--article--conditional-reasoning-logical-equivalence
Khan Academy. (n.d.).
If x, then y | Sufficiency and necessity.
Retrieved May 6, 2025, from https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/lsat/lsat-lessons/logic-toolbox-new/a/logic-toolbox--article--if-x-then-y--sufficiency-and-necessity
Khan Academy. (n.d.).
The logic of "if" vs. "only if".
Retrieved May 6, 2025, from https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/lsat/lsat-lessons/logic-toolbox-new/a/logic-toolbox--if-and-only-if
Khan Academy. (n.d.).
A quick guide to translating common prose statements into conditional logic statements.
Retrieved May 6, 2025, from https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/lsat/lsat-lessons/logic-toolbox-new/a/logic-toolbox--article--quick-guide-conditional-logic
Association for Computing Machinery. (2018).
ACM code of ethics and professional conduct
. ACM. https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (2020).
IEEE code of ethics
. IEEE. https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html
Canadian Information Processing Society Code of Ethics. (2022).
CIPS code of ethics
. CIPS. https://cips.ca/ethics/
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. (2025).
NeurIPS Code of Ethics.
NeurIPS. https://neurips.cc/public/EthicsGuidelines
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. (2021).
The
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
(PIPEDA).
Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/the-personal-information-protection-and-electronic-documents-act-pipeda/
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. (2018).
Summary of privacy laws in Canada
. Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/02_05_d_15/
Government of Canada. (2025).
The Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) - Companion document.
Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/innovation-better-canada/en/artificial-intelligence-and-data-act-aida-companion-document#s5
Parliament of Canada. (2025).
C-27
. LEGISinfo. Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/c-27
U.S. Government. (2001).
USA Patriot Act
. Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ56.pdf
European Union. (2016).
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance).
EUR-Lex. Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj
European Commission. (2025).
AI Act.
Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai
Free Software Foundation, Inc. (2024).
What is free software?
GNU Operating System. Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Morgenstein, D. (2021).
Celebrating the FSF’s 35th anniversary: Stories from the Licensing and Compliance Lab.
Free Software Foundation. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/celebrating-the-fsf2019s-35th-anniversary-stories-from-the-licensing-and-compliance-lab
Open Source Initiative. (2024).
The open source definition
. Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://opensource.org/osd
Birkbeck, University of London. (2016, November 22).
Study skills workshop 05 - Critical thinking skills
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbmMn-Z7a8&t=1326s
Unit 4: What is Data, Really?
Google Books Ngram Viewer. (n.d.).
Search for computer, ethics, and computer ethics.
Retrieved May 7, 2025, from https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=computer%2C+computer+ethics%2C+ethics&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
Grynbaum, M. M., & Mac, R. (2023). The Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over A.I. use of copyrighted work.
The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html
Allyn, B. (2024). Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice.
NPR
. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her
TEDx Talks. (2024, January 9).
Indigenous peoples breathing data back | Stephanie Russo Carroll | TEDxUArizona
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPS_3mZXWXw
TED. (2018, November 21).
How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy | Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E_1AB1rsSw
Web Summit. (2019, November 4).
Morality in the age of tech surveillance - Edward Snowden
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4_7A-SGLo8
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries & Royal Statistical Society. (2019).
A guide for ethical data science.
https://rss.org.uk/RSS/media/News-and-publications/Publications/Reports%20and%20guides/A-Guide-for-Ethical-Data-Science-Final-Oct-2019.pdf
TED. (2014, October 20).
Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data?
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWPrOvzzqZk
TED-Ed. (2013, July 14).
What we learned from 5 million books - Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50MpgVJ8xAE
TED. (2017, April 17).
3 ways to spot a bad statistic | Mona Chalabi
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwwanld4T1w
Unit 5: Empowerment Through Data and Data Use
TED. (2018, September 18).
How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain | Steve McCarroll
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv-TjM4YVzE
TEDx Talks. (2016, December 5).
How FinTech is shaping the future of banking | Henri Arslanian | TEDxWanChai
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPkNtN8G7q8
TED. (2022, July 1).
How data-driven journalism illuminates patterns of injustice | Allison Killing | TED
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQO5GegfPA
TED. (2012, October 30).
Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG21nyJNB_A
Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA). (2023, April 4).
Beyond ChatGPT: Stuart Russell on the risks and rewards of A.I.
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow3XrwTmFA8
Climage Change AI. (2023).
ICLR 2023 workshop: Tackling climate change with machine learning.
Retrieved May 9, 2025, from https://www.climatechange.ai/events/iclr2023
TEDx Talks. (2024, March 27).
Pixels and principles: Ethics of AI art | Melody Liu | TEDxNortheasternU
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zu2aRsh9N8
IEEE. (n.d.).
IEEE Xplore
. Retrieved May 9, 2025, from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
The Conversation. (n.d.).
The conversation.
Retrieved May 9, 2025, from https://theconversation.com/ca
Association for Computing Machinery. (n.d.).
ACM digital library.
Retrieved May 9, 2025, from https://dl.acm.org
Unit 6: Ethical Challenges of Data and Data Use
Shoback, J. (2023, January 9). Data privacy vs. data security: Four implications for business leaders.
Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/01/09/data-privacy-vs-data-security-four-implications-for-business-leaders/
Wong, J. C. (2020, December 4). More than 1,00 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru.
The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/04/timnit-gebru-google-ai-fired-diversity-ethics
Simons Institute. (2021, May 14).
Theoretically speaking
—
A panel discussion on the film
Coded Bias
[Video]. YouTube. Retreived May 15, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSj3Jzcq8WA
TED. (2024, June 14).
Why AI needs a "nutrition label" | Kasia Chmielinski | TED
[Video]. YouTube. Retrieved May 15, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orD3vsEyGdA
Brennan, C. (2021, June 3). Can GPT-3 write misinformation? Yep, it sure can.
Medium
. https://medium.com/deepnews-ai/can-gpt-3-make-misinformation-yup-it-sure-can-988bd1ab2f19
Government of Canada. (2025).
Sensitive technology research areas.
Retrieved May 15, 2025, from https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/safeguarding-your-research/guidelines-and-tools-implement-research-security/sensitive-technology-research-and-affiliations-concern/sensitive-technology-research-areas#7
Hern, A. (2018, Jaunary 28). Fitness tracking app Strava gives away locations of secret US army bases.
The Guardian
. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases
TED. (2024, June 5).
Your right to repair AI systems | Rumman Chowdhury | TED
[Video]. YouTube. Retrieved May 15, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxE0TWcT-kA
Unit 7: Algorithms, Models, and Their Uses
Argenti, M. (2024, April 16). Why engineers should study philosophy.
Harvard Business Review
. https://hbr.org/2024/04/why-engineers-should-study-philosophy?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=dailyalert_&deliveryName=NL_DailyAlert_20240417
Thomson, J. (2025, February 7).
AI:
The alignment problem
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Y0izZiLyk
Guszcza, J., Rahwan, I., Bible, W., Cebrian, M., & Katyal, V. (2018, November 18). Why we need to audit algorithms.
Harvard Business Review.
https://hbr.org/2018/11/why-we-need-to-audit-algorithms
O'Neil, C., Appel, J., & Tyner-Monroe, S. (2024, June 11). Auditing algorithmic risk.
MIT Sloan Management Review
. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/auditing-algorithmic-risk/
Li, H. (2020, December 9). Which machine learning algorithm should I use?
SAS.
https://blogs.sas.com/content/subconsciousmusings/2020/12/09/machine-learning-algorithm-use/
Fumai, K. (2025, May).
AI model cards are another key component of an #AIgovernance program.
[LinkedIn post]. LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinfumai_aigovernance-activity-7239256091459559424-PQjO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACZwhaUBqrwVOnTVJZ_lRBTYqKWXHHRyghI
TED. (n.d.).
The influence of algorithms
[Playlist]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOGi5-fAu8bEsJ8N00DP0Rle2plArFsZu
RSA. (2018, October 17).
The truth about algorithms | Cathy O'Neil
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQzqX35c9A
Redden, J. (2018, November 1). The harm that data do.
Scientific American.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-harm-that-data-do/
TED. (2017, September 7).
The era of blind faith in big data must end | Cathy O'Neil
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2u_eHHzRto
Rubinstein, G. (2012, September 15). Analyzing released NYC value added data part 6.
Gary Rubinstein's Blog.
https://garyrubinstein.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/analyzing-released-nyc-value-added-data-part-6/
Unit 8: Ethical Challenges in Modelling and Algorithms
Redden, J., Brand, J., & Terzieva, V. (2020).
Data harm record (Updated).
Data Justice Lab. https://datajusticelab.org/data-harm-record/
Greenemeier, L. (2018, March 21). Uber self-driving car fatality reveals the technology's blind spots.
Scientific American.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/uber-self-driving-car-fatality-reveals-the-technologys-blind-spots1/
Johnston, H., Wells, R. F., Shanks, E. M., Boey, T., & Parsons, B. N. (2024). Student perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in higher education.
International Journal for Educational Integrity, 20
(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-024-00149-4
Floridi, L., Cowls, J., Beltrametti, M., Chatila, R., Chazerand, P., Dignum, V., Luetge, C., Madelin, R., Pagallo, U., Rossi, F., Schafer, B., Valcke, P., & Vayena, E. (2018). AI4People-An ethical framework for a good AI society: Opportunities, risks, principles, and recommendations.
Minds and Machines, 28,
689-707. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-018-9482-5
Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA). (2023, April 4).
Beyond ChatGPT: Stuart Russell on the risks and rewards of A.I.
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow3XrwTmFA8
Government of Canada. (2024).
Guide on the use of generative artificial intelligence.
Retrieved May 21, 2025, from https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/responsible-use-ai/guide-use-generative-ai.html
Government of Canada. (2024).
Algorithmic impact assessment tool.
Retrived May 21, 2025, from https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/responsible-use-ai/algorithmic-impact-assessment.html
CBC News. (2024, April 14). Q&A: A call for public debate and thoughtful regulation of AI systems.
CBC News.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/q-a-a-call-for-public-debate-and-thoughtful-regulation-of-ai-systems-1.7172217
Yaacoub, J.-P. A., Noura, H. N., Salman, O., & Chehab, A. (2021).
A survey on ethical hacking: Issues and challenges.
American Univeristy of Beirut. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.15072
Christen, M. (2020). The hidden dilemmas of cybersecurity practitioners.
Public Administration School of Catalonia.
https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-194175
Tavani, H. T. (2008). Ethical issues involving computer security: Hacking, hacktivism, and counterhacking. In K. E. Himma & H. T. Tavani (Eds.), The handbook of information and computer ethics. John Wiley & Sons.
Christen, M., Gordijn, B., & Loi, M. (2020).
The ethics of cybersecurity.
Springer Nature Link. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-29053-5
O'Neill, P. H. (2020, September 10). The Russian hackers who interfered in 2016 were spotted targeting the 2020 US election.
Technology Review
. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/10/1008297/the-russian-hackers-who-interfered-in-2016-were-spotted-targeting-the-2020-us-election/
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. (n.d.).
Russian state-sponsored and criminal cyber threats to critical infrastructure.
America's Cyber Defense Agency. Retrieved May 21, 2025, from https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa22-110a
McCandless, D., Maslekar, S., Simon-Batsford, N., Camme, T., Novotny, D., Evans, T., & Barton, P. (2024).
Ransomware attacks.
Information is Beautiful. Retrieved May 21, 2025, from https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ransomware-attacks/
Winder, D. (2024, November 5). Google claims world first as AI finds 0-day security vulnerability.
Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/11/05/google-claims-world-first-as-ai-finds-0-day-security-vulnerability/
Nolan, L., Moreau, Y., Milner, Y., & Khan, S. (2022, July 18). The Tech We Won't Build
(Season 6: Episode 1) [Audio podcast episode]. In
IRL
. https://irlpodcast.org/season6/episode1/
Culloty, E. (2024). Deepfakes are still new, but 2024 could be the year they have an impact on elections.
The Conversation
. https://theconversation.com/deepfakes-are-still-new-but-2024-could-be-the-year-they-have-an-impact-on-elections-224786
Smalley, E. (2024). AI vs. elections: 4 essential reads about the threat of high-tech deception in politics.
The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/ai-vs-elections-4-essential-reads-about-the-threat-of-high-tech-deception-in-politics-220036
TED. (2023, September 5).
How "digital twins" coule help us predict the future | Karen Willcox | TED
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2_VWdjxchY
Unit 9: Current Issues
The Royal Society. (2018).
Portrayals and perceptions of AI and why they matter.
https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/ai-narratives/ai-narratives-workshop-findings.pdf
Russell, S. (n.d.). Living with artificial intelligence.
The Reith Lectures.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001216k/episodes/guide
Buolamwini, J. (2019, February 7). Artificial intelligence has a problem with gender and racial bias. Here's how to solve it.
Time Magazine.
https://time.com/5520558/artificial-intelligence-racial-gender-bias/
Vincent, J. (2018, October 10). Amazon reportedly scraps internal AI recruiting tool that was biased against women.
The Verge.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17958784/ai-recruiting-tool-bias-amazon-report
Mökander, J., Schuett, J., Kirk, H. R., & Floridi, L. (2023). Auditing large language models: A three-layered approach.
AI and Ethics, 4,
1085–1115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00289-2
Burga, S. (2024, June 4). Employees say OpenAI and Google DeepMind are hiding dangers from the public.
Time Magazine
. https://time.com/6985504/openai-google-deepmind-employees-letter/
Hanlon, A., & Jones, K. (2023). Ethical concerns about social media privacy policies: Do users have the ability to comprehend their consent actions?
Journal of Strategic Marketing,
1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0965254X.2023.2232817
Mehrotra, D., & Cameron, D. (2024, November 19). Anyone can buy data tracking US soldiers and spies to nuclear vaults and brothels in Germany.
Wired
. https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/
McCandless, D., Evans, T., Quick, M., Hollowood, E., Miles, C., Hampson, D., & Geere, D. (2024).
World's biggest data breaches & hacks.
Information is Beautiful. Retrieved May 22, 2025, from https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/
Wolf, M. J., Miller, K. W., & Grodzinsky, F. (2017). Why we should have seen that coming: Comments on Microsoft's Tay "experiment," and wider implications.
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 47
(3), 54–64. https://doi.org/10.1145/3144592.3144598
Wang, H., Shao, W., Sun, C. Yang, K., Cao, D., & Li, J. (2024). A survey on an emerging safety challenge for autonomous vehicles: Safety of the intended functionality.
Engineering, 33
, 17–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2023.10.011
Coglan, S., Leins, K., Sheldrick, S., Cheong, M., Gooding, P., & D'Alfonso, S. (2023). To chat or bot to chat: Ethical issues with using chatbots in mental health.
Digital Health, 9.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076231183542
Meaker, M. (2024, May 16). Meta faces fresh probe over 'addictive' effect on kids.
Wired.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-faces-fresh-probe-over-addictive-effect-on-kids/
Lavoie Ste-Marie, G. (2023, March 1). Episode 26: Who owns AI-generated creations (and why you should care)
[Audio podcast episode]. In
Canadian IP Voices.
Canadian Intellectual Property Office. https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-intellectual-property-office/en/episode-26-who-owns-ai-generated-creations-and-why-you-should-care
Susarla, A. (2024, March 22). Generative AI could leave users holding the bag for copyright violations.
The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/generative-ai-could-leave-users-holding-the-bag-for-copyright-violations-225760
Fan, E. T., Reguly, T. A., & Dufresne, Y. (2024). Does AI have patent and copyright ownership?
Torys.
https://www.torys.com/en/our-latest-thinking/resources/forging-your-ai-path/does-ai-have-patent-and-copyright-ownership#:~:text=Thus%2C%20solely%20AI%2Dcreated%20inventions,be%20listed%20as%20an%20inventor.
Boutin, C. (2022, March 16). There's more to AI bias than biased data, NIST report highlights.
NIST.
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/03/theres-more-ai-bias-biased-data-nist-report-highlights
Schwartz, R., Vassilev, A., Greene, K., Perine, L., Burt, A., & Hall, P. (2022).
Towards a standard for identifying and managing bias in artificial intelligence.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.1270
Bertrand, A., Belloum, R., Eagan, J., & Maxwell, W. (2022). How cognitive biases affect XAI-assisted decision-making: A systematic review.
AAAI/ACM Conference on Artifical Intelligence, Ethics, and Society.
https://telecom-paris.hal.science/hal-03684457/file/How%20Cognitive%20Biases%20Affect%20XAI-assisted%20Decision-making_rvwd.pdf
CBC Radio. (1989). The 1989 CBC Massey lectures, "the real world of technology".
CBC
. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845
Andalibi, N. (2024, March 6). Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched - and misunderstood.
The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/emotion-tracking-ai-on-the-job-workers-fear-being-watched-and-misunderstood-222592
Microsoft. (2024, November 19).
Microsoft customers share impact of generative AI
[Press release]. https://news.microsoft.com/source/2024/11/19/microsoft-customers-share-impact-of-generative-ai/
Gupta, U., Kim, Y. G., Lee, S., Tse, J., Lee., H.-H. S., Wei, G.-Y., Brooks, D., & Wu, C.-J. (2021). Chasing carbon: The elusive environmental footprint of computing.
2021 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA).
https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA51647.2021.00076
Gallersdörfer, U., Klaaßen, L., & Stoll, C. (2020). Energy consumption of cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin.
Joule, 4,
1839–1851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.07.013
Krotoski, A., & Fong, K. (2024, June 19). How green is my AI? [Audio podcast episode]. In
The artificial human
. BBC Sounds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00208g4
Mehonic, A., & Kenyon, A. J. (2022). Brain-inspired computing needs a master plan.
Nature, 604,
255–260. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04362-w
Adler, K. (2024, January 2). How artificial intelligence could upend 2024's many elections [Audio podcast episode]. In
The global story.
BBC Sounds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0h17cpy
Coveney, P. V., & Highfield, R. R. (2021). When we can trust computers (and when we can't).
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 379
(2197). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0067
Vaughan, J. W. (n.d.).
Profile
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Farquhar, S. (n.d.).
Profile
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Unit 10: Future Development and Perspectives on Future Challenges
Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA). (2023, November 13).
Joy Buolamwini and Sam Altman: Unmasking the future of AI
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpOi5Icizjc
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