AU Philosophy & Religion

🌐 What role does technology play in how we live and how we should live? 🌐

Enroll in Introduction to Digital Ethics this Spring ‘25 and dive into today’s biggest moral questions around AI, privacy, algorithmic bias, and more! Learn how digital tools are reshaping our choices, values, and identities.

Introduction to Digital Ethics (PHIL-296-001)
Instructor: Jerome Clarke
T, F 12:55 PM - 2:10 PM

Can digitality, a term connoting division and distinction, have a place in the good life? Life today is awash in categories, forms, and ratings, all processed from when stamps meet birth certificates. It is indisputable that the twenty-first century will be decided, in large part, by machines, and given the course engineering has taken, there is a shrinking difference between using and contributing to the development of today's technologies. As information technology overrides how we relate to the world, ourselves, and each other, longstanding moral assumptions come up short or are altogether reworked. This course frames prevailing debates of algorithmic bias, automation, misrepresentation, and privacy from a moral vantage while demonstrating how these problems reshape traditional debates on how we ought to live.

The Department of Philosophy and Religion has treats waiting for you today!! (No tricks, we promise!)

When: Oct 30, 1:00–3:00 pm
Where: Room 120, Battelle-Tompkins

Costumes welcome, but come as you are if you'd rather! See you!