AI and Ethics (CS60016)

Spring Semester 2020

Sponsored by the Google Tensorflow Award

Instructor: Animesh Mukherjee (animeshm[AT]cse[DOT]iitkgp[DOT]ac[DOT]in)

Teaching Assistant: Kalyani Roy, Binny Mathew and Abhisek Dash; Contact: aiethicsta@googlegroups.com

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the current administrative circular issued by IIT Kharagpur, AI and Ethics classes will be held in online mode through Zoom until further notices.

Class Timings: WED (10:00-10:55), THURS (09:00-09:55), FRI (11:00-11:55)
Location: Room 120, CSE
Ofice of the Instructor: Room 121, CSE

Books (I will not follow any textbook in this course! But you can use some of the books below as references)
  1. The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns
  2. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Ernest Davis and Gary Marcus
  3. Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart J. Russell
  4. Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence by Paula Boddington
  5. Moral machines by Wendell Wallach
  6. AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh (this book will come out by the time we have ended our semester!)

Course Rules
  1. There will be no formal attendance taken. However if i find that the class strength is dropping drastically, I shall revert to taking regular attendance.
  2. Term assignments. We will have groups of 5-6 people and each group will be asked to implement 2-3 research papers throughout the semester. There will be a presentation before the midsem and one before the endsem. Some of these implementations (the most professional ones can go into the TensorFlow stack -- FairTensorflow). The details of what needs to be presented will be communicated later.

Marks Division
  1. Midsem: 20%
  2. Term assignment: 35%
  3. Endsem: 45%
Course Outline
See here