Chapter 1
The birth of thinking machines
Chapter 2
How machines actually learn
Chapter 3
AI in our everyday lives
Chapter 4
The future and ethics of AI
YOUR GOAL
Master of The story of artificial intelligence
Ch 4 · The future and ethics of AI
play_review AI Ethics
AI's great potential, Human ethics guiding, For a future that's fair.
play_review Advanced AI can generate incredibly realistic fake videos and voices, making it hard to trust digital media.
play_review Training and running large AI models requires massive amounts of electricity and water for cooling data centers.
Fun Fact
AI copyright battle: In 2023, several famous authors sued AI companies, arguing their copyrighted books were used to train models without permission.
Glossary
algorithmic bias (noun)
Systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes, such as privileging one arbitrary group of users over others. In 2016, researcher Joy Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League to combat discrimination in facial recognition software.
Systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes, such as privileging one arbitrary group of users over others. In 2016, researcher Joy Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League to combat discrimination in facial recognition software.
Quiz
What technology uses two competing neural networks—a generator and a discriminator—to create highly realistic fake images?
Quiz
Which organization was founded in 2015 with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity?
Quiz
What is the term for realistic fake media, such as videos or audio clips, created using artificial intelligence?
Quiz
Why do generative AI queries require significantly more energy than traditional search engine queries?
Quiz
What is the term for an AI system that possesses the ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge across any intellectual task like a human?
Quiz
If an AI hiring tool discriminates against female applicants because it was trained on historical data from a male-dominated industry, what is this called?