From Oxford Online, we find these definitions:
philosophy: The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
ethics: Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.
The Canvas class modules are organized by week; new modules are usually published on Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a holiday), and most activities for most modules occur in that week.
Obligatory xkcd collection:
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Online Ethics-oriented Resources
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
Collection of ethical code URLs from NC State
Computer and Information Ethics (in particular, see the Uniqueness debate between Maner and Johnson)
Books
Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence
Isaac Asimov: I, Robot
Norbert Weiner: The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Soshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Other
Excerpt from The Grand Design episode of "Yes, Prime Minister"
Other Readings
2021-08-26: The Myth of a Superhuman AI
2021-08-31: Flying Humanoid Robot
2021-09-02: FTC bans SpyPhone and CEO from surveillance business
2021-09-02: Victory: Federal Trade Commission Bans Stalkerware Company Conducting Business
2021-09-02: I asked GPT3 about COVID-19 — tts responses shocked me
2021-09-07: The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine
2021-09-07: Operation Rubicon
2021-09-09: Apple's Bug Bounty Ethics
2021-09-09: Juniper: Mystery Attacks Traced to Pentagon Role and Chinese Hackers
2021-09-16: OpenAI Codex
2021-09-16: Project Debater
2020-02-26: Big Data Provides Personalized Pricing
2021-09-17: Tomorrow's AI will reason like humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts
2021-09-23: We need software updates forever
2021-09-23: AI writes code like human beings, bugs and all
2021-09-23: Ransomeware victims not informed that FBI secretly held REvil decryption key
2021-09-23: AI for weed eradication
2021-09-23: Is computer science misnamed?
2021-09-28: Codex at work
2021-09-28: Mayflower revisited, humans need not apply
2021-09-28: Rajasthan blocks internet for testing
2021-09-28: Who owns the copyright?
2021-09-28: Playform.io
2021-09-28: Meet the artist
2021-09-28: GAN becomes CAN
2021-09-29: Live Stream of Beethoven's 10th Symphony on October 9, 2021. (Starts at 12:55, Tallahassee time.)
2021-09-30: AI comments on AI
2021-09-30: Tesla: Full Self-Driving?
2021-09-30: Tesla: Full Self-Driving?
2021-09-30: Another grand success for AI
2021-09-30: Lethal weapon system may have already killed people
2021-10-05: Rise of one time password interceptions bots
2021-10-05: On the nature of mathematics
2021-10-05: Singapore passes foreign interference law; authorities can block Internet content
2021-10-05: A budget for retaliatory cyberwarfare in the UK
2021-10-07: EU moves on biometric mass surveillance
2021-10-12: The future of work is uniquely human
2021-10-12: The State of Surveillance in 2021
2021-10-12: AI Jobs: on the farm and in the forest
2021-10-12: Precrime in the surveillance state
2021-10-13: Humans need not apply: Nissan's Intelligent Factory
2021-10-13: Nissan's press release
2021-10-14: Ghost Robotics, Inc
2021-10-14: Computerized canines to join Team Tyndall
2021-10-14: Ghost Roboticss now makes a lethal robot dog
2021-10-14: Robot future for military dog handlers?
2021-10-14: America's approach to command and control goes peer-to-peer
2021-10-14: Implementing Response AI in the Department of Defense
2021-10-14: AI Principles for DOD (Background for above document)
2021-10-14: What robot dogs can do
2021-10-18: The Pentagon and AI Oracles
2021-10-19: Racing drones soon will outperform humans?
2021-10-19: False Alarms in the Nuclear Age (2001)
2021-10-19: The advent of cognitive warfare (draft, version 3)
2021-10-19: Innovation Hub's Cognitive Warfare site
2021-10-19: Missouri Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaws in state website
2021-10-19: Brian Krebs take on above story
2021-10-19: Genetic AI algorithm development
2021-10-21: AI and employment: Will college involve fewer professors?
2021-10-21: Today's business world: AI fights ransomware
2021-10-21: The Register's Advertorial for above
2021-10-21: Business practices in 2021: Guns on robots?
2021-10-21: Restaurants and robots
2021-10-26: Wikipedia's list of scholarly publishing stings
2021-10-26: Popper's "Science as Falsification"
2021-10-26: New York Times writer attacked by mysterious malware
2021-10-26: A new, relevant xkcd:
2021-10-26: Empirical observation of negligible fairness–accuracy trade-offs in machine learning for public policy
2021-10-28: US Government Owes Over $100 Million Because of Tray/Cart Patent Infringement
2021-10-28: EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month Award" for the same cart/tray patent
2021-10-28: Patent 6,888,460
2021-10-28: Court decision of 2021-10-28
2021-10-28: FSF: Can you trust?
2021-10-28: EFF: Meditations on Trusted Computing
2021-10-28: Trusted Computing Promise and Risk
2021-11-02: Trusting compilers in 2021 (The paper referenced and a website (cross reference this to the much older IDN homograph_attack
2021-11-02: Analyzing complexity for QEMU
2021-11-02: Drone autonomously fights fires?
2021-11-04: Monetizing all human behavior?
2021-11-04: Open source access, sometimes not legal in Sweden?
2021-11-09: The Skinner Box
2021-11-09: The Arms Trade and Pervasive Surveillance Tools
2021-11-16: DOD and AI Ethics
2021-11-16: Biological computation
2021-11-16: Robots in space
2021-11-16: Fighting the next war, U.S.
2021-11-16: Fighting the next war, Russia
2021-11-29: Xenobots: life meets technology
2021-11-29: Self-replicating robots (CNN version) The paper
2021-11-29: Cyberwar not covered
2022-01-11: Intel Deletes Reference to Xianjiang after Backlash in China
2022-01-11: Facial recognition as a Pareto Technology
2022-01-11: Texas cities experience phishing via qr codes attached parking meters
2022-01-11: Air Tag Tracking
2022-01-13: Autonomous Weapons
2022-01-13: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist, and They Must Be Banned
2022-01-13: Operation Trojan Shield
2022-01-18: U.S. Airlines Warn of Chaos with the rollout of 5G
2022-01-18: Agricultural Autonomy
2022-01-18: Hume AI
2022-01-18: Will AI Destroy Education?
2022-01-20: The most recent SIGCAS newsletter (2021 Fall)
2022-01-20: The robot revolution continues: the worst warehouse job
2022-01-20: First time: AI named inventor
2022-01-20: Can a robot be arrested? Hold a patent? Pay income taxes
2022-01-20: IRS to require selfies?
2022-01-20: EFF: Williams versus San Francisco
2022-01-20: Dubbing via AI?
2022-01-25: Researchers build AI that builds AI
2022-01-25: The ClearView AI saga continues in Canada
2022-01-25: A right to repair?
2022-01-25: Hacktivists say they hacked Belarus Rail Systems to Stop Russian military buildup
2022-01-25: "Slightly" superhuman hiking?
2022-01-27: Identity theft thrives
2022-01-27: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs tracking mechanisms
2022-01-27: Britain and AI decision-making
2022-01-27: The rise of the robots in Singapore
2022-01-27: Our automated future?
2022-01-27: ID.ME changes its tune on techniques
2022-01-27: Privacy policies and larger considerations
2022-01-27: AI chatbots, admissions, and ethical risks
2022-01-31: When the algorithm is your boss
2022-02-01: The NSA Spies Shaping the Future
2022-02-02: AlphaCode
2022-02-02: Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
2022-02-07: Ghost dogs on the border
2022-02-08: The future of warfare? (From here
2022-02-08: Throwable robots?
2022-02-08: IRS backs off from biometric measures?
2022-02-10: Google Analytics GDPR Breach
2022-02-10: Zoom
2022-02-10: The trade in surveillance meets the world of arms
2022-01-20: First time: AI named inventor
2022-02-15: Robots face many challenges
2022-02-16: Honorlock?
2022-02-22: Copyright Office answers "no" to AI authorship question
2022-02-22: Open Letter on AI
2022-02-24: EU Proposes Data Laws
2022-02-24: Missouri Governor's Office?
2022-02-24: Employment fraud?
2022-02-25: ACM, Ethics, and Corporate Behavior
2022-03-01: Et tu, Apple?
2022-03-03: Warren and Warner write letter to the Treasury
2022-03-08: Echoes in the Uncanny Valley? (Uncanny Valley explanation)
2022-03-10: Money, fraud, and the Internet: who is responsible?
2022-03-10: Explain yourself?
2022-03-22: Dual use for AI
2022-03-22: Cell phones: knowing where you are...
2022-03-22: Privacy Police?
2022-03-22: Itami: Mass surveillance of the elderly
2022-03-22: My wife tracked me for journalism
2022-03-22: This article is spying on you...
2022-03-24: Tools for good... can these be used for bad?
2021-10-19: The advent of cognitive warfare (draft, version 3)
2021-10-19: Innovation Hub's Cognitive Warfare site
2022-03-29: Clearview AI : Ukraine?
2022-03-29: A Brave New World of Nullities
2022-03-29: Whose fault: autonomous entity or human?
2022-03-29: OpenAI and human augmentation
2022-03-29: Hackers gain power of subpoena through fraudulent emergency data requests
2022-03-30: GPT3 grows more impressive
2022-03-30: How your shadow credit score could be used
2022-03-30: Direct interfaces
2022-03-31: Giordano and battlefields
2022-03-31: What other students in computer ethics are thinking
2022-04-05: Would you hire this AI?
2022-04-05: USB-C madness, technological duplicity
2022-04-05: In praise of desktop computing
2022-04-05: The Thin Edge of the Wedge?
2022-04-05: The Thin Edge, part II? (video)
2022-04-05: More robodogs on military bases
2022-04-07: Advanced Persistent Teens
2022-04-07: Why, Worldcoin?
2022-04-07: DALL-E-2 (NY Times version)
2022-04-07: DALL-E
2022-04-07: Robots in space
2022-04-07: Improving Man-Machine Interfaces
2022-04-07: Imaging AI autonomous entity cleared for use
2022-04-10: AI to make triage decisions on the battlefield?
2022-04-10: Speed Cam Anywhere!
2022-04-10: Double your money!
2022-04-10: ACM: Technology and its impact
2022-04-10: Dall-e-2 Friday
2022-04-13: Caltech graduate sentenced to five years federal prison for presentation on cryptocurrency — in North Korea
2022-05-10: AI outperforms humans
2022-05-12: AI goes to war in Ukraine
2022-05-12: The Weapon that Mistook a School Bus for an Ostrich
2022-05-12: AI succeeds at yet another Turing Test: this time in product reviews
2022-05-12: NY Times editorial on NFTs
2022-05-12: OpenSea
2022-05-12: OpenSea, II
2022-05-17: Congressional activity with regard to ClearviewAI
2022-05-17: DHS current client of ClearviewAI 2022-05-17: Digital Dragnet: ICE makes wide use of facial recognition
2022-05-17: When Corporate Interests and International Cyber Agreements Collide
2022-05-24: Imagen: DALL-E 2 now has competition
2022-05-24: AI tells a story, makes illustrations
2022-05-24: Clearview AI fined
2022-05-24: Clearview AI fined
2022-05-24: Deep Fakes become ever-more convincing
2022-05-26: Eutopian Superintelligence?
2022-05-26: AI at work, the best case
2022-05-26: AI at work, in reality
2022-05-31: Superintelligence: AI detects race from x-rays, an ability that humans do not have (Original article
2022-05-31: The professor is definitely not in
2022-05-31: Honorlock?
2022-05-31: The cryptic world of crypto
2022-05-31: What is the truth about Zadira and Peresvet?
2022-06-02: Nokia says 6G will be a revolution in 10 years time
2022-06-02: Discovering the secret language of DALLE-2
2022-06-07: International Law Enforcement and Intergovernmental Cooperation 2022
2022-06-07: Palermo government computing goes out
2022-06-07: Italy warns about Killnet
2022-06-07: Romania and Killnet
2022-06-09: Address to the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group (FELEG)
2022-06-09: Five Eyes Foresee Alarms
2022-06-09: Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group Meets in 2016
2022-06-09: Simulation or Gamefication?
2022-06-09: War Thunder Leaks
2022-06-09: Recent information on the Paige Thompson case
2022-06-09: Update: Capital One was fined in 2020 in regard to the Paige Thompson case
2022-06-09: Inside the mind of the Capital One hacker
2022-06-09: US v. Paige Thompson
2022-06-09: Software development in 2022: Work and ip-washing
2022-06-09: IP-washing aspects of AI generated code
2022-06-09: Meet Amazon's first fully autonomous mobile robot
2022-06-09: HIKvision and the SDN question
2022-06-28: European Parliament's "Framework of ethical aspects of AI, robotics, and related technologies
2022-06-28: European Parliament's proposed set of AI regulationss
2022-06-28: LaMDA?
2022-06-28: Models and Science
2022-06-30: Interview with an entity
2022-06-30: Hacker News debates the interview with an entity
2022-06-30: Searle's Chinese Room argument
2022-07-05: Can a corporation trademark a color?
2022-07-05: Experiments with DALL-E
2022-07-05: Mickey Mouse?
2022-07-07: Code replay attack on the myGovID Scheme
2022-07-07: Can Computers be Mathematicians?
2022-07-07: Copyright in action, 2022
2022-07-07: Wiretapping the world
2022-07-07: Windows11 and webcams
2022-07-12: Burma rolls out Chinese surveillance systems
2022-07-12: Democratization of AI?
2022-07-14: Gaming and toxicity?
2022-08-23: University of Maryland Professor Built Machine for China's Alibaba
2022-08-25: Honorlock in the courts
2022-08-30: Ethics in advertising?
2022-08-30: Civilian AI Is Already Being Misused by the Bad Guys
2022-09-01: Why do you want to work here?
2022-09-01: AI wins state fair art contest
2022-09-01: Why Dall-E will not steal my job
2022-09-01: Stories by AI (Hacker News discussion)
2022-09-01: Dall-E introduces "outpainting"
2022-09-01: Stable Diffusion Demo Image created by Stable Diffusion:
2022-09-01: ClearviewAI has a rival
2022-09-01: What does GPT3 know about me?
2022-09-01: BlenderBOT3
2022-09-06: ICO fines Clearview AI
2022-09-06: Clearview AI fined
2022-09-06: Meta fined $400 million for privacy violations related to children's personal data
2022-09-06: Deepfakes
2022-09-06: AI competition for Eric Carle's work?
2022-09-08: Stable Diffusion and ethics concerns
2022-09-08: China and Smart Cities
2022-09-13: The ethics of art and "creativity"?
2022-09-13: Academic publishers using AI
2022-09-13: How to stop Smart Cities from becoming surveillance cities
2022-09-13: LED Streetlights, surveillance, and "Smart Cities"
2022-09-20: 1984 2022: Totalitarian state erases the "past"
2022-09-20: Artist unhappy with AI image generation
2022-09-20: Hazlitt's observation becoming obsolete? ("Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.")
2022-09-20: State of surveillance: Instagram influencers surveilled
2022-09-20: AI assistant organizes your digital life
2022-09-20: New student in class?
2022-09-21: Are China's Smart Cities Really Surveillance Cities?
2022-09-22: San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors
2022-09-22: San Francisco cops can use private cameras to live-monitor 'significant events'
2022-09-22: ACLU/EFF position on SFPD use of private cameras for public surveillance
2022-09-22: U.S. military buys mass monitoring data
2022-09-22: Letter to Senator Wyden from DOJ Inspector General about mass monitoring data purchases
2022-09-22: The world is moving toward digital authoritarianism
2022-10-03: Sovereign RUnet: What does it mean?
2022-10-04: National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
2022-10-04: Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
2022-10-04: U.S. Government wants to limit China's Supercomputing and AI Firms
2022-10-04: Ulterior motives and recommender systems
2022-10-04: Digital people?
2022-10-06: Life Architect
2022-10-06: AI and matrix multiplication
2022-10-06: Imagen and video (Ars' cached video
2022-10-06: Harmful AI's liability status in Europe
2022-10-06: Why are there so many fake profiles on LinkedIn?
2022-10-06: DreamFusion: Stable Diffusion in 3-D
2022-10-06: Stable Diffusion in 3-D
2022-10-18: Cyborgs go small format
2022-10-18: ... and can come with an ethics statement, too!
2022-10-18: AI and chess championship
2022-10-18: IBM'S HR 3.0
2022-10-18: HCH defined
2022-10-18: Strong HCH
2022-10-18: Universality and consequentialism with HCH
2022-10-18: AI in the workplace
2022-10-20: Robots with shotguns discussed by Oakland city authorities
2022-10-20: Policy for deadly robotics?
2022-10-25: Gamification, Github experiments
2022-10-25: Mathematics, Computer Science, and the great controversies
2022-10-25: Navy wants swarms
2022-10-25: Doomscrolling 2022
2022-11-01: AI and artists
2022-11-03: Responsible AI has a burnout problem
2022-11-08: It didn't happen --- did it?
2022-11-08: Addicted to social media
2022-11-08: Making laws for autonomous weapons systems
2022-11-08: Questions to answer about humanity's role in autonomous weapons systems
2022-11-08: Trusting death to AI
2022-11-08: Ethicists sought for autonomous weapons systems
2022-11-08: Participate in discussions about autonomous weapons systems
2022-11-08: Turing-like machine in molecular computing
2022-11-08: Fashionable AI?
2022-11-15: FTX
2022-11-17: Malware and IDNs
2022-11-17: The woes of FTX
2022-11-17: Speech?
2022-11-17: Slaughterbots
2022-11-17: Lanius
2022-11-17: Lanius advertisement
2022-11-29: Yet another task humans need not do
2022-11-29: Another AI to NI analog?
2022-11-29: Even what you see can be a product of AI
