PUBPOL 4210 - [Artificial Intelligence: Law, Ethics, and Politics]

Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Student option grading.

S. Kreps.

In the coming decades machine intelligence will transform the economy, society, and global politics. This course will study these processes and the political challenges to the development of beneficial AI. Topics will include problems in AI safety; effects on- and of inequality and technological unemployment; the strategic and tactical impacts of autonomous weapons, cyberweapons, and AI-enabled intelligence operations; global institutions for providing global public goods, the legitimate aggregation of preferences, and the beneficial governance of AI development.

Outcome 1: To become familiar with the arguments and methods deployed in the readings.

Outcome 2: To practice our critical analysis, so that we can better identify weaknesses in the theory, methods, or empirics of other research, including our own.

Outcome 3: To inspire new ideas and research directions.