AI Ethics Word List

AI ETHICS

 Moral questions of artificial intelligence

WATCH

1. Coded Bias — Shalini Kantayya, 2020 · Documentary · Facial recognition and algorithmic discrimination in real-world systems.

2. The Social Dilemma — Jeff Orlowski, 2020 · Documentary · Tech insiders explain how AI-driven platforms manipulate behavior.

3. Ex Machina — Alex Garland, 2014 · Film · AI consciousness, gender, and the ethics of creation.

4. iHuman — Tonje Hessen Schei, 2019 · Documentary · AI’s threat to democracy, privacy, and human autonomy examined globally.

5. Hi, AI — Isa Willinger, 2019 · Documentary · Humans forming emotional bonds with AI companions; tender and unsettling.

6. Lo and Behold — Werner Herzog, 2016 · Documentary · Herzog’s meditation on the internet and AI and what they’re doing to us.

7. Weapons of Math Destruction — Based on Cathy O’Neil’s book, various adaptations · Algorithmic bias in hiring, lending, and sentencing.

8. AlphaGo — Greg Kohs, 2017 · Documentary · A machine defeats the world’s best Go player; what it means for human intelligence.

9. Atlas of AI — Kate Crawford, various talks · The physical and human infrastructure behind artificial intelligence.

10. Her — Spike Jonze, 2013 · Film · A man falls in love with an AI; loneliness, intimacy, and what intelligence requires.

LISTEN

1. Your Undivided Attention — Center for Humane Technology · AI, attention, and the ethics of persuasive technology.

2. AI Alignment Podcast — Various · The technical and philosophical challenge of making AI safe.

3. Hard Fork — NYT · Tech journalism including AI ethics covered with rigor and wit.

4. The AI Ethics Brief — Montreal AI Ethics Institute · Weekly digest of the most important AI ethics developments.

5. Lex Fridman Podcast: AI Ethics episodes — Various · Long-form conversations with researchers on the ethics of machine intelligence.

6. Future of Life Podcast — Various · Existential risk from AI and what governance could look like.

7. Radical AI — Various · AI ethics centered on justice, equity, and community impact.

8. The Machine Ethics Podcast — Various · Philosophy of machine morality and decision-making.

9. Data & Society Podcast — Various · The social implications of data-driven technologies.

10. Hidden Brain: AI episodes — Shankar Vedantam · The psychology of how humans relate to and anthropomorphize AI.

READ

1. Atlas of AI — Kate Crawford · The environmental, labor, and political costs of artificial intelligence.

2. Weapons of Math Destruction — Cathy O’Neil · How algorithms punish the poor and vulnerable while claiming objectivity.

3. Race After Technology — Ruha Benjamin · Discriminatory design and the new Jim Code embedded in AI systems.

4. The Alignment Problem — Brian Christian · What it means to make AI that actually does what humans want.

5. Human Compatible — Stuart Russell · An AI pioneer’s case for building machines that defer to human values.

6. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff · How behavioral data has become the raw material of AI power.

7. AI Superpowers — Kai-Fu Lee · China, America, and the geopolitics of artificial intelligence.

8. Automating Inequality — Virginia Eubanks · How automated systems target and punish poor communities.

9. Hello World — Hannah Fry · How algorithms make decisions that affect human lives.

10. A Hacker’s Mind — Bruce Schneier · How the powerful exploit systems — including AI systems — and how to stop them.