Unpacking AI

This course aims at providing a broad understanding of artificial intelligence, from its history and recent technological developments, to more philosophical questions about intelligence and ethics. In doing so, it adopts a perspective ‘from within’, meaning that any analysis should be rooted in a certain technical understanding of AI.

This directly echoes a recent Financial Times article, according to which:

This course aims at increasing students’ AI literacy, while also fostering their critical thinking when it comes to AI technology, devices, business models and socio-political consequences.

Course structure

  1. A quick history of AI
  2. Recent AI develoments
  3. Open the hood of AI
  4. Some ethical issues