Terminated in academic year 2018/2019

Ethical questions of artificial intelligence

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	711-0116/01
Abbreviation	EOUI
Course title	Ethical questions of artificial intelligence
Credits	2
Coordinating department	Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator	prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer

Subject syllabus

1. The emergence of ethics as a science discipline, basic ethical issues and concepts.
2. Basic methodological approaches in ethics (descriptive ethics, normative ethics, meta-ethics, applied ethics).
3. Basic functions of morality, moral reasoning, historical overview of ethical theory.
4. Deontological ethics, utilitarianism and ethics of virtues.
5. Thought experiments in ethics.
6. Artificial Intelligence, its Characteristics and History
7. Development of paradigms of artificial intelligence
8. New Approaches to Artificial Intelligence
9. Current trends in AI research (superintelligence, singularity, transhumanism, etc.)
10. The Second Age of Machines, Artificial Intelligence and Ethical Dilemmas
11. Moral implications of superintelligence and artificial mind
12. Future of AI and possible scenarios

Literature

Wendell Wallach. Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, Oxford University Press; 1 edition (June 3, 2010),
Paula Boddington: Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Theory, and Algorithms), Springer; 1st ed. 2017, ISBN-13: 978-331960647
Mel Thompson, Ethical Theory, Hodder Education an Hachette UK company 2008, ISBN: 978- 0340- 95779- 0

Advised literature

WHITBECK, C. ETHICS IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH (Second Edition), Cambridge University Press 2011, New York, USA, Second edition published 2011, .
FLEDDERMANN, CH, B. Engineering Ethics, Pearson Education Limited 2014, Edinburgh, ISBN 10:1-292-01252-8.

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