US college to offer class on ethics of AI in everyday life

The course will be co-taught by professors from three different disciplines: digital and computational studies, government and philosophy. — 123rf.com

Ethical issues around movie recommendations provided by Netflix and virtual backgrounds offered on Zoom are among the topics that students at Bowdoin College will tackle in a new class on artificial intelligence set to be offered in the fall of 2023.

The AI ethics course marks new intellectual ground for the Brunswick liberal arts school, one of 15 colleges selected through an application process to work with the North Carolina-based National Humanities Centre as a part of its Responsible Artificial Intelligence Curriculum Design Project.