STS 3042

STS 3042

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.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3042

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19192 STS 3042   LEC 001

    • MW Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Kreps, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 19193 STS 3042   DIS 201

    • M Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 19194 STS 3042   DIS 202

    • M Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 20529 STS 3042   DIS 204

    • F Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 20903 STS 3042   DIS 205

    • F Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 20904 STS 3042   DIS 206

    • M Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online

  • 20905 STS 3042   DIS 207

    • M Online Meeting
    • Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Online