This seminarium will be about pro and cons of AI.

Notice: There is only one seminarium from 13-17, so all students are expected to be there during this time.

1. Select topic

Each student selects one of the 12 topics below by writing their name and selected group in the Course Sheet. Notice that there is a maximum of 3 students in each topic, so those that select the topic first gets that topic. Students in each topic work together in preparation for this seminarium.

1a. What ethical problems have AI introduced in the past or the present.

1b. What ethical gains have AI introduced in the past or the present.

2a. What ethical problems may AI generate in the future.

2b. What ethical gains generate in the future.

3a. From a social ingroup and outgroup perspective: Argue for why AI are valued higher than humans

3b. From a social ingroup and outgroup perspective: Argue for why humans are valued higher than AI

4a. Argue that AI do not have conscious and/or do not have qualia

4b. Argue for why AI are conscious and/or have qualia

5a. Argue for the idea of transhumanism

5b. Argue against the idea of transhumanism

6a. Argue that that AI is good

6b. Argue for that AI is evil

2. Search literature

Each group member search and find one recommended article, book chapter, or other source related to the topic and provide link to this source in the Course Sheet. The recommended literature should be in place at least 48 hours prior to seminarium.

3. Read literature

a. Each group member then reads all recommended literature for the topic (i.e. both for a and b) and make a short comments on the literature that the other topic members have suggested (e.g., so there should be about 3 to 5 comments from each student). The comments should be a length of a few few sentences . b. Also add grading of the litteratur, i.e. how much you liked it on a scale from 1 to 5 (i.e., 1 = poor, 2 = ok, 3 = good, 4 = great, 5 =excellent). Write your gradings on the row in the Course Sheet where the article link is on. c. Finally add your initials at the end of your comments in parentheses (i.e. [SS]).

For example: "The paper of Smith et al (2020) was really fun to read but i thought the argument about qualia was superficial. Grade 4. [SS]"

4. Prepare a presentation on the topic

Based on the recommended literature each groups prepares a presentation for the seminarium. Each presentation should be about 10 minutes. Make the presentation in Google Presenter and share a link to it in the Course Sheet (make the link public) at least 12 hours prior to the symposium.

5. Make the presentation on the seminarium

Mark your attendance in the Course Sheet after your presentation.

Schedule:

00-10 minutes: Group A presents.

10-20 minutes: Group B presents.

20-30 minutes: Open discussion for everybody.

Litterature tips:

Topics 1, ethics past, 2 ethics future & 6:

Tegmark, Max. (2018). Life 3.0. (https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/life-30-9780141981802?gclid=Cj0KCQjwrMKmBhCJARIsAHuEAPSSQuPVvacCgKRss2vrzcrXk9ZttSDCXs4yE5sMBxjjhp4YFXg7T1MaAgBpEALw_wcB)

*Lin, P., Abney, K., & Bekey, G. (2011). Robot ethics: Mapping the issues for a mechanized world. Artificial Intelligence, 175(5-6), 942-949.

*Allen, C., Wallach, W., & Smit, I. (2006). Why machine ethics?. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21(4), 12-17.

Boada, J. P., Maestre, B. R., & Genís, C. T. (2021). The ethical issues of social assistive robotics: A critical literature review. Technology in Society, 67, 101726.

Kahn Jr, P. H., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Gill, B. T., Ruckert, J. H., Shen, S., & Severson, R. L. (2012, March). Do people hold a humanoid robot morally accountable for the harm it causes?. In Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 33-40).

A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3

Topics 4, consciousness:

*Dehaene, S., Lau, H., & Kouider, S. (2021). What is consciousness, and could machines have it?. Science. Robotics, AI, and Humanity, 43-56.

Kosinski, M. Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

Topics 5, transhumanism:

O'Connell, M. (2017). To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death (https://www.amazon.com/Be-Machine-Adventures-Utopians-Futurists/dp/0385540418)