GOVT 3042

The Politics of Technology

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This course will examine the politics of technology, with an emphasis on dual use technologies such as social media, artificial intelligence, and facial recognition. It will look at political consequences of those technologies, including the way that social media can be manipulated in an electoral context, how AI and automation can affect public policies (e.g., predictive policing) and ways to mitigate algorithmic biases embedded in these technologies, and questions of whether the United States and China are locked in a technology arms race and if global governance proposals can defuse the adverse consequences of great power competition over technology.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (SBA-AS, ETM-AS)
Course Subfield (AM)

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