Unit 5: Society, Technology, and Modernity

Gael Langevin, InMoov. Photo by Yethy from the 2018 Robot Love art exhibit in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

• "We're Already in the Metaverse" by Megan Garber

• Save the Last Word Activity for Garber Article

• Precis Practice

• Reality+ Introduction by David Chalmers 

• Optional Text: Reality+ Part I: Virtual Worlds by David Chalmers

• What is Reality? Discussion

• Human vs. Machine Card Sort

• A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled by Kevin Roose and "Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive'" Transcript and Reflection by Kevin Roose (Full transcript of 2 hour conversation)

• “ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution” 

• "Timnit Gebru Is Calling Attention to the Pitfalls of AI"

• AI Discussion

• "The Uniqueness and the Normality of the Holocaust" from Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman (1989, republished in 1991, and 2002)

• Bauman Discussion

• Socratic Seminar Preparation:  Groups, Socratic Seminar Packet, Final Questions

• Precis due Thursday, 3/28 (Google Classroom)