Language: English
Location: Online (TUM, EuroTeQ)
Offered in: Winter semester 2025–26
Description
Digital technology is getting always more complex, and it becomes always more interwoven with the human lifeworld. The problems of understanding the nature and implications of digital technology express in radically different and often contradictory conceptions. The seminar examines the major conceptions of digital technology in view of Generative AI and the respective ethical consequences they imply. A particular emphasis is on the changes Generative AI brings to the perception, action, and thinking of individuals and their social relations. Using selected examples, not only concepts for understanding (digital) media and models of ethical argumentation are presented, but also options for evaluating and dealing with ethical conflicts are discussed.
Upon successful completion of this seminar, students will be able to:
- describe the prevalent and often implicitly presupposed conceptions of AI
- explain the ethical issues entailed by the respective conception
- read and analyze philosophical texts
- apply philosophical and ethical considerations to concrete case studies
- present and discuss academic papers on this complex interdisciplinary topic
- improve their skills in text analysis, group work, and presentation to an interdisciplinary and international online audience