HS2024 AI and Human Values Lecture 1 PDF

Welcome! Please go to EduApp and answer a few intro questions Artificial Intelligence & Human Values Fall 2024, ETH Zürich Prof. Margarita Boenig-Liptsin, Dr. Kebene Wodajo Lecture 1: Welcome and Overview  Cent...

Welcome! Please go to EduApp and answer a few intro questions Artificial Intelligence & Human Values Fall 2024, ETH Zürich Prof. Margarita Boenig-Liptsin, Dr. Kebene Wodajo Lecture 1: Welcome and Overview  Centre Mondial Informatique, Paris, 1983. Image: INA. "Computer literacy" in the first information society Asia Salikhova at the BESM, Novosibirsk, 1979. Image: Ershov Archive. Children with LOGO Turtle, USA. Image: Papert, 1980.  Five axes of AI&HV What is "artificial" or artifice? What is "human" or natural? AI What is intelligence? What are values? Sites of Encounter: university, person, city, community, nature, nation, law Time: patterns, origins, trajectories, contingencies Human Values You!  NY Times, August 13, 2019 NY Times, September 18, 2024 NZZ, May 31, 2024  The Harris Poll, September 10, 2024 US Surgeon General Report, 2023 NY Times, February 1, 2024  ETH, December 4, 2023 “Through this joint initiative we want to exploit our advantage as a location and make Switzerland’s expertise in artificial intelligence transferrable to society as a whole [...] “Science must assume a pioneering role in such a forward-looking field, rather than leaving it to a few multinational corporations. Only in this way can we guarantee independent research and Switzerland’s digital sovereignty.” - Christian Wolfrum, ETH Vice President for Research  Le Monde, February 12, 2024 “Switzerland is one of the world’s fastest-growing venture capital markets,” Stöckl said in a video interview. “In its own way, Founderful wants to replicate Silicon Valley in Switzerland.” Bloomberg, February 13, 2024 NY Times, January 25, 2024 Time, December 28, 2023 YouTube, February 9, 2024 MIT Technology Review, February 14, 2024 Prof. Torsten Hoefler at the Inauguration of "Alps" Research Symposium, September 13, 2024 Getting to know each other Your instructors: Prof. Margo Boenig-Liptsin Dr. Kebene Wodajo Leander Lelouvier Getting to know you! Course Objectives & Assessments 1) Identify how contemporary AI systems depend Reading Response: upon, reflect, and reproduce human contexts and Comments and questions on what is at stake in this co-dependence between readings (40%) (10 weeks) technology and society for democracy, justice, and ethics today 2) Articulate their ethical positionality in relation to AI systems and communicate about this with their Reflection exercises (4) peers and personal and professional communities (20%) 3) Apply constructivist, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives presented in course In-class Final Exam (40%) lectures and readings to socialize their scientific practice in the age of AI. A walk through the semester (Syllabus on-line) Getting situated AIxKnowledges AIxWorlds AIxFutures Key course policies Attendance in class necessary for full course benefit (enjoyment!) and to complete the final exam successfully Respectful discussion in-class Distributed grade; Grading rubric for in-class final exam Readings (PDFs or links) on Moodle ○ Readings should be done and response submitted in Moodle on Tuesday night before the lesson for which it is assigned For general questions, please use EduApp; for personal logistics matters, email TA Leander Lelouvier ([email protected]) or Prof. Boenig-Liptsin ([email protected]) Come to our student hours! Listed in the syllabus – all in our offices Stampfenbachstrasse 69 (STB) Individual work, 10 minutes. Reflection 1: Please write down your 2-3 personal goals for the course. What do you aspire to learn to do or to learn about in the area of AI and human values? For next week: Reflection 1 in Moodle Reading Response Please write down your 2-3 personal John Law, "Heterogeneous Engineering goals for the course. And Tinkering," 2011. What do you aspire to learn to do or John Dewey, "Creative Democracy – The to learn about in the area of AI and Task Before Us," 1939. human values? How do the readings speak to our contemporary moment? How do they connect to the topics of AI&HV as we've started to discuss them today?