This course introduces you to the core philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and ethics concepts needed to build better technology and reason about its impact on the economy, civil society, and government.

Some questions that the course might consider include:

• What is intelligence, and how does it vary between types of agents (human, animal, artificial)? What are the normative assumptions behind research in intelligence?
• What is data, and how can we design more ethical data governance regimes?
• Can technology be racist? If so, what are promising strategies for promoting fairness mitigating algorithmic bias?
• Can we understand black box AI and explain its outputs? Why is it morally important that we do so?
• How can we embed human values into AI systems?