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16689
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| Year |
3
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
TP(60H)
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| Scientific area |
Philosophy
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Entry requirements |
N/A
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Learning outcomes |
By the end of the course unit, students should be able to:
1.Define, problematize, and interrelate the various concepts studied, analysing their historicity and complexity within the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI);
2.Understand and interpret the cultural and philosophical foundations of Artificial Intelligence;
3.Analyse and relate the ethical contributions of the philosophers studied within the framework of the Digital Age, Transhumanism, Late Capitalism, and Postmodernity;
4.Critically relate Artificial Intelligence, techne, technology, and the environment;
5.Critically relate Simulacra, Machines and Women;
6.Critically recognise the risks, challenges, and dilemmas associated with privacy and surveillance, automation and labour;
7.Discuss regimes of moral, legal, and algorithmic responsibility;
8.Understand regulatory frameworks and identify key principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act).
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Syllabus |
1.Definition of the concepts of Ethics, Privacy, Responsibility, and Trustworthiness, their interrelations, historicity, and relevance to Artificial Intelligence. The emergence of Applied Ethics;
2.WHO A(M) I? Cultural and philosophical foundations of Artificial Intelligence. The myths of Pygmalion and Daedalus. Relations between image, agalmatophilia, and Artificial Intelligence;
3.WHERE A(M) I? Cultural and sociopolitical contexts of Artificial Intelligence: Transhumanism, Postmodernity, the Digital Era, Late Capitalism, and Cyberspace.
4.Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and the Environment. Aristotle, Martin Heidegger, Hans Jonas, and Bruno Latour;
5.Simulacra, Machines, and Women. Donna Haraway and A Cyborg Manifesto;
6.The moral status of machines: moral versus legal responsibility. Automation and labour. Surveillance and privacy. Algorithmic accountability. Explainable AI. GDPR. EU Artificial Intelligence Act.
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Main Bibliography |
- ARISTÓTELES, Ética a Nicómaco. Quetzal, 2024.
- CLARK, A. e TORIBIO, J. (Eds.), Machine Intelligence: Perspectives on the Computational Model. Routledge, 1998.
- HARAWAY, D., A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
- HEIDEGGER, M., The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays. Garland Publishing, 1977.
- JONAS, H., The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. University of Chicago Press, 1985.
- LATOUR, B., Jamais Fomos Modernos: Ensaio de Antropologia Simétrica. Editora 34, 1994.
- STOICHITA, V., O Efeito Pigmalião: Para uma Antropologia Histórica dos Simulacros. KKYM, 2012.
- VALLOR, S., The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford University Press, 2024.
- ZUBOFF, S., The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Profile Books Ltd, 2019.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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