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Section 1: Texts

Core

  • Digital Access
    • “Artificial Intelligence 101: Why It’s Different This Time,” Zoe Thomas and Eric Niiler, The Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2023
    • “Can We Build AI without Losing Control over It?,” Sam Harris, TED, June 2016
    • “Fortune Brainstorm Films: Artificial Intelligence,” Fortune Magazine, YouTube, November 7, 2018
    • “Glossary of Artificial Intelligence Terms (From A to Z),” Rebecca Reynoso, G2.com, Inc., 2019
    • “HAL 9000: ‘I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That’” from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, YouTube, 1968
    • “Speech of Artificial Intelligence by Stephen Hawking in GMIC Beijing 2017,” Yicai Global, YouTube, 2017
    • “Stephen Hawking: ‘AI Could Spell the End of the Human Race’,” BBC, YouTube, 2014
    • “What Is Technological Singularity? Origins: The Journey of Humankind,” National Geographic, YouTube, March 16, 2017
  • Unit Reader
    • “Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030,” Peter Stone et al., Stanford University, 2016
    • “Benefits & Risks of Artificial Intelligence,” Future of Life Institute, Future of Life Institute, 2016
    • “Distinguishing between Narrow AI, General AI and Super AI,” Tannya D. Jajal, Tannya D. Jajal, 2018
    • Excerpt from “Artificial Intelligence,” B.J. Copeland, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2019
    • “Will Robots Outsmart Us? The Late Stephen Hawking Answers This and Other Big Questions Facing Humanity,” excerpt from Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking, Spacetime Publications Limited. Used by permission of Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC., 2018

Optional

  • Digital Access
    • “Mr. Roboto,” Styx, YouTube, 1983