HW

• Next lecture:
  • 2 texts in Moodle
  • Write and comment till Monday
• TODO - send him some of my materials RE GPT3
• TODO - copenhagen theory of ethics - facebook experiment on mood through timelines

Basics

• Prof. Dr. Arne Berger
  • “Kein Ethiker, kein Philosoph”
  • Professor of HCI, PhD in Design Research
  • https://www.arneberger.de
• Crisis
  • “I’m happy you showed up. Despite war, pandemic, and the ongoing climate catastrophe.”
  • “Sprechen Sie mich an, wenn es Ihnen nicht gut geht.”

Course / Housekeeping / Orga

• Besser mit Maske
• Fragen gleich fragen
• Outcomes:
  • “recognize and critically question the ethical implications in DS etc.”
  • “training in scientific reading, writing, arguments”
  • discussions, ethical reasonings
• Read the syllabus (Moodle)
• 50% reading & comments, 50% participation
• Seien Sie nicht still
• “Bad arguments lead to bad grades, disagreement does not.”
• Donnerstag ist kein Termin vor Ort, es ist der Zeit wo wir kommentäre schreiben
• Slide 22 has a plan of “reading list topics”

Concept

• Read the assignment
• Write 200 words on it on Moodle
• Comment one of the reflections of a peer
  • 24h before the next lecture
  • Deutsch/English etc.

What is ethics?

• TL;DR examples of ways things go wrong in unexpected ways
  • Glasses with Strom / spy program for exams
    • you’re forced to use it even though looked OK at the beginning
  • robot/Rollstuhlfahrer
    • second-order problem
• /DI fauxtomation - when robots aren’t guided by AI, but by people in Sudamerica
• Gleichbehandlung != Justice, Equity
• Tree with apples:
  • /D Justice - make the tree with a lot of apples on all sides
  • /D Equity - if the tree isn’t equal, help the person with the worst part of the tree more.

Kinds of ethics (homework)

• Virtue Ethics
• Deontology
• Consequentialism
• Slide 22 has a plan of “reading list topics”
  • Write him an email about other topics we’d like to see
  • Computerspiel, dem Sie spielen müssen:
    • “The way the world ends” - don’t read texts, they are spoilers
  • Workshop: ethical speciulation
• Then everyone