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APAI1001 - AI: foundation, philosophy and ethics

Required readings

• lecture slides
• Notes on intentionality
• A. M. Turing (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-460. PDF at either https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf or https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238
• Chapter 26 "Philosophical Foundations". Russell and Norvig (2010) Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach. Third Edition. Pearson.

Recommended Readings

• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/
• Ned Block "The Mind as the Software of the Brain". https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/msb.html
• Intentionality - The first 3.5 paragraphs (until "directed at") of https://www.iep.utm.edu/intentio/
• Consciousness - The first 5 paragraphs of Nagel's "What is ti like to be a bat?" http://web.archive.org/web/19990218140703/members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/Nagel_Bat.html
• The Chinese room argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TryOC83PH1g (Optional detailed discussion: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/)
• Discussion of the frame problem in section 7.7 of Russell and Norvig (2010).
• Mirror test: https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/mirror_test.htm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKs_iW0QVNY
• Knowledge argument: http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/courses/mind/notes/mary.html
• Ethics: First two sections of http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/intro_1.shtml ("what is ethics", "what use is ethics")
• Biases: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/artificial-intelligence/tackling-bias-in-artificial-intelligence-and-in-humans
• Utility and rights https://philosophy.hku.hk/think/value/utility.php
• Singularity: pages 1-6 of Chalmers "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis" http://consc.net/papers/singularity.pdf

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