Artificial Intelligence and Society

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How do we approach a world filled with technology? Every power structure in society now relies upon digital technologies, a fact made clearer since the advent of generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT. But what is the true role of technology, and what is the social value of AI? How has AI transformed our lives, and how will it change society in the future? This course, hosted by Duquesne?s Grefenstette Center for Ethics, will help you understand the broad impacts and social implications of new technologies in the modern world. This will include historical intersections of technology and social construction, as well as modern discussions of AI and its impact on climate, warfare, government, corporation, and wealth. This is a fully online, asynchronous course, and is meant to partner with GREF 210:AI Ethics, as one of two required courses in the AI & Digital Ethics Micro-credential. This course fulfills the Social and Historical Reasoning competency in the Bridges Common Learning Experience (CLE).