Artificial intelligence, particularly with the introduction of generative AI, is fundamentally impacting a huge spectrum of human experience. This ranges from education to the vast majority of jobs and professions, to healthcare, media and entertainment, and much more. These rapid advances have been accompanied by a huge array of fundamental and greatly impactful ethical challenges, including bias and even hallucination in AI systems, where AI systems should and shouldn�t replace humans, and potential benefits and harms from various types of autonomous systems, and existential issues including the future of human work and the possibility of AI systems whose intelligence exceeds that of humans. This course provides students with a broad exposure to the ethical issues arising from AI, along with the experience and ethical tools to analyze them. It is intended to help students recognize and deal with these issues in their professional careers and their lives. It is based in good part on current research papers and is designed in a way that it can be kept current by refreshing the references it is based on. It can be taken as a standalone course or in conjunction with existing CU Boulder Coursera courses on ethics and computing and/or ethical issues in data science.
instructor(s)
Schnabel, Bobby
Primary Instructor
- Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
