CSSE 413: Impact of AI

In order to develop an understanding of the potential impact of AI, read, discuss and evalutat one of the following resources. Write a paper containing your evaluation, give a class presentation and lead an in-depth discussion of your chosen topic.

I strongly encourage you to watch the movie “War Games” It gives you a sense of the dawn of personal computing and it gives you a sense of what might happen if computers decide to launch a nuclear attack, one of the things many researchers in AI are concerned about.

Organizational Aspects

Please work on the project in groups of four students.
Please study the resources carefully. You may have to read them more than once.
Organize a session in which your group discusses the resource.
Develop a slide presentation of the materials.
Write a position paper in which you express your position(s).
- The paper should be about four pages long, single-spaced.
- Please provide a title and list your teammates.
- Provide a summary of the resources you read.
- Provide an evaluation of the points made by the resources.
- Provide your own thoughts on the subject.
- State the anticipated impact, the impact on society and the impact on individuals as applicable.
- Discuss ethical concerns on the subject.
You will be asked to spend half a class time to present your materials, about 10 minutes, and to lead an in-depth discussion, about 15 minutes.
Here is the presentation schedule
In the paper and in the class discussion, please focus the class discussion as well as the summary of the paper on the main points made by the author(s). Use your own opinion as a potential way to get the disucssion going.
Please ensure you give as fair a summary of the claims made as you can. Imagine the authors were to be in the audience, do you feel they would agree with your representation of their work?
In the presentation, discussion and paper, please address issues such as: (i) Overall anticipated impact, (ii) anticipated impact on society, (iii) anticipated impact on individuals, (iv) ethical concerns, either stated by the authors or your own.