Please watch the “Front Line documentary, The Age of AI. PBS and Front Line” video on YouTube before writing the essay. You only need to focus on parts 1 through 4 in the video.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dZ_lvDgevk
I have broken down the minutes and 5 Part structure of the video below:
Introduction
Subjects: Alpha Go; Deep Learning
Minutes [0 to 6:48}
Part I: China has a Plan
Subjects: Chinas Tech Race with the US. Surveillance State and Authoritarian Capitalism
Minutes [6:48 to 21:40]
Part II: The Promise
Subjects: AI in the workforce; Alex Rodriguez and autonomous trucking; Deep Learning and cancer detection; Exponential growth of AI technology; Case studytruck driving industry under threat
Minutes [ 21:42 to 42:00]
Part III: The Future of Work
Subjects: Jeff Bezos optimism about AI; Kai Fu Lees concern about the impact of AI and white and blue collar workers; Productivity vs median income; Societal impact of automation replacing jobs and workers. Rise of inequality
Minutes [ 42:00 to 1:06:00]
Part IV: The Surveillance Capitalist
Subjects: Shoshanna Zuboff and Big Datas use of our private data to predict and profit of predicting human behavior; Googles embraces advertising, turns its back on the companys original motto Do No Evil. Facebook and their social contagion experiment; Cambridge Analytica; Alistair Mactaggart drive to push a privacy law to regulate big mediathe Right to Know (and the right to opt out of big tech selling your data).
Part V: The Surveillance State
Subjects: Dystopia Now: Chinas high tech surveillance and oppression of the Uighurs. Social Control; Rise of Huawei on the world stage; Fear of the merging of state and corporate power. AIa new Age of Enlightenment, or Age of Darkness; AI and the threat to democracy
Then, write a 450-550 word response in essay format answering one of the following discussion questions:
1) Question: Evaluate Jeff Bezos optimism about technology and his claim that theres nothing new about the dual nature of technology. Bezos states that the last thing we would want to do is stop the progress of new technology. However, the technology expert, Kai-Fu Lee, argues that theres something unique about the AI Revolution, especially compared to previous industrial revolutions.
Who do you agree with and why? Is artificial intelligence a true Pandoras Boxa seeming gift that includes unexpected and even tragic dangers? Discuss your ethical concerns about the pervasive spread of such a potentially disruptive technology.
2) Question: The impact of AI technology on workers (both blue and white collar) is a serious concern for technology experts. The documentary uses the plight of US truckers as a case study for how AIin the form of autonomous vehiclesis taking over an industry that used to provide stable, middle-class jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans.
How do we balance innovation while protecting our citizens quality of life? Do you believe that technology itself will solve this dilemma and create new jobs and industries to replace the old ones? What ethical values or principles will help you justify your position?
3) Question: Alistair Mactaggart helped draft and implement Californias Consumer Privacy Act that went into action on January 2020. The law gives residents of the state a new arsenal of tools to protect their data and personal information online while placing more responsibility on businesses.
What is the law?
a. California residents will be able to demand companies to disclose what information is collected on them and request a copy of that information.
b. Companies will be forced to delete consumers data upon request and theyll be prohibited from selling information if the customer instructs them to via a mandatory do not sell link on the companys website.
c. Consumers will also have the right to receive equal service and price whether or not they exercise their privacy rights or in other words, companies wont be able to treat a user differently because they have requested their data.
You can answer either one of these two prompts (a. or b.) to write your essay for Question 03:
a. What ethical responsibility does a company have when they collect and sell your data? What responsibility does the consumer have? How far should your right to privacy extend?
b. Discuss whether or not this new law should be expanded to the federal level? Why or why not?
I attached the instruction document in the Additional materials section. Please read it carefully. (A full Transcript of the video is at the end of the instruction document)
Thank you.
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