- AI: Basics & Big Questions

Catalog description

This course is an interdivisional exploration of the basics and big questions raised by artificial intelligence (AI). Students will learn and apply foundational concepts relevant to the function of AI as well as competing frameworks for general theories of AI. Students will develop strategies for reasoning with and about AI and investigate a broad range of specific questions about the impact of AI across human society. Questions include: How will AI impact the labor market, the battlefield, and the classroom? What is intelligence and what distinguishes “artificial intelligence”? How could AI transform our ethical, aesthetic, and political practices? What role should education through and about AI play in the liberal arts?