Artificial Intelligence systems have become increasingly involved with our lives. These systems can be used in relatively low-stakes decision making such as recommender systems but they are also used in medical contexts too. More recently, wider public use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney to write documents, reports, and emails, or create pictures, and logos to use in various ways. All of these introduce ethical challenges with implications on data ethics, privacy, bias, sustainability, and so on. This course will introduce the ethical implications of artificial intelligence to the students. We will also discuss our role in this and how to take steps to minimize harm as people working with big data and AI (e.g. future researchers, software engineers, or analysts).

No main reference. There will be open-access articles and tools as references, shared
every week.