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Feb 10, 2025
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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHIL 270 - Ethics and Intelligence: Is the Robot a Frankenstein’s Monster?
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
The ethics of artificial intelligence is a branch of applied or practical ethics concerned with robots and other forms of artificial intelligence. Since artificial intelligence (AI) can influence many aspects of our lives, and might harm as well as help us, it is imperative that it operates within an ethical framework. The development of artificial intelligence, then, raises several ethical questions, to be addressed in this course: (1) How might artificial intelligence benefit or harm us?; (2) What limits should there be to the use of AI in war?; (3) What limits should there be to the use of AI in intelligence gathering?; (4) Should robots have rights?; (5) How does the emergence of AI challenge our idea of what it means to be human?; and (6) How might AI change human nature?
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