2024-2025 Catalog

LAW-2032 Race, Ethical, AI and Cyber Civil Rights

This seminar introduces current and emerging technologies such as facial recognition technology, deep neural networks, machine learning, algorithmic development, biosignature identification and surveillance and their impact upon privacy, contextual integrity, informational norms, Asilomar principles of ethics, due process, civil liberties and civil rights. In light of deep fakes, spoofing, malevolent AI and coded inequity in the global AI arms race, the seminar will examine in rigorous analytical context possible regulatory frameworks to address issues of bias, explainability, harmlessness, economic impact, and responsibility in AI. Students will complete practice writing assignments and a final paper.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Student has completed any of the following course(s) LAW 156 - Constitutional Law, LAW 552 - CONST LAW II