COR 230M - Digital Goodness, Beauty, and Truth

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4

This course seeks to evaluate the implications of artificial intelligence, robotics, and similar modern technologies for their impact on the ways and means by which we flourish. We will, to be sure, learn to use selected AI tools and to do so ethically. Among the concrete questions we will consider are how one pursues the truth in an era of deepfakes, whether an algorithm can generate beauty, and how one might evaluate moral responsibility (goodness) in decisions made by AI. However, we will also challenge ourselves to look beyond materialistic or utilitarian concerns, to reflect on the ways that emerging technologies transform our sense of excellence, create new experiences of harmony and order that resonate with our perceptions, and align our understanding with the way things are.

This course is viewpoint neutral.

Edgewood COR courses provide an integrative framework for students to understand themselves, become aware of the needs of the world, and develop the gifts they have been given to create a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world. Cross-listed RS 255

Offered Fall, Winterim, Spring

Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1