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Artificial IntelligenceText Overview

We will read a series of informational texts and argumentative essays on the topic of artificial intelligence. The titles, authors, and locations of these texts are indicated in the unit text list. Unit Readers are available through Open Up Resources.

Core

  • Digital Access
    • “AI Doesn’t Eliminate Jobs, It Creates Them,” Michael Xie, Forbes, 2018
    • “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
    • “Charts of the Largest Occupations in Each Area, May 2019,” Division of Occupational Employment Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2018
    • “Fortune Brainstorm Films: Artificial Intelligence,” Fortune Magazine, YouTube, November 7, 2018
    • “GDPR Explained: How the New Data Protection Act Could Change Your Life,” Channel 4 News, United Kingdom, YouTube, May 23, 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
    • “How to Read a Scientific Paper,” Natalia Rodriguez, Elsevier
    • “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
    • Excerpt from “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values,” United States Executive Office of the President, Public Domain, 2014
    • “Machine Bias,” Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica Inc., 2016
    • “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?,” Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, Elsevier Inc., 2016
    • “The Montréal Declaration: Why We Must Develop AI Responsibly,” Yoshua Bengio, The Conversation US, Inc, 2018
    • “What Is Machine Learning?,” Chris Meserole, The Brookings Institution, 2018
    • “Why We Should Stop Fetishizing Privacy,” Heidi Messer, The New York Times Company, 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’ Lyrics,” Styx, AZ Lyrics
    • “AI Today: Definition, Use Cases, Risks, and Unexpected Consequences on Society,” Marion Baylé, Medium
    • “Are Criminal Risk Assessment Scores Racist?,” Jennifer L Doleac and Megan Stevenson, Brookings Institute, 2016
    • “COMPAS Risk Scales: Demonstrating Accuracy, Equity and Predictive Parity,” William Dieterich, Christina Mendoza, and Tim Brennan, Northpointe Inc. Research Department, 2016
    • “Ethics for Powerful Algorithms,” Abe Gong, Open Data Science, 2017
    • “False Positives, False Negatives, and False Analyses,” Anthony W. Flores, Kristen Bechtel, and Christopher Lowenkamp, Federal Probation Journal, 2016
    • “First Report: Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection in Tension,” Centre for Information Policy Leadership, Centre for Information Policy Leadership
    • “Mr. Roboto,” Styx, YouTube, 1983
    • “ProPublica Is Wrong in Charging Racial Bias in an Algorithm,” Chuck Dinerstein, American Council on Science and Health, 2018
    • “What Is AI? Everything You Need to Know about Artificial Intelligence,” Nick Heath, CBS Interactive
  • Unit Reader
    • “What Is Artificial Intelligence?,” Darrell M. West, The Brookings Institute

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To find digital access texts on the Internet, complete the following steps:

  1. Locate the reference information for the text (text title, author, date of publication, and publisher) found on the Text page for a unit, section, or lesson.

  2. Highlight and copy the reference information.

  3. Paste the information into a search engine.

  4. The text will appear as one of the first search results.

  5. Verify the result by comparing the reference information on the website to the information on the Text page.