Artificial Intelligence: Media, Culture, and Power

Catalog description

Explores how artificial intelligence fits into the overall study of modern media, including disruptions to the current media landscape. Through a critical perspective, the course examines key ways that machine learning, and our uses of it, may ultimately challenge - or uphold - structures of social power and privilege. Students will consider the implications of AI, including its perils and promises, for us, our society, and the world around us.