Program Overview

Program Overview

The university offers a range of programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education options.

Academic Programs

• Undergraduate
• Graduate
• Continuing education (SUTD Academy)
• 42 Singapore

Pillars, Clusters, and Programmes

The university is organized into several pillars, clusters, and programs, including:

• ASD: Architecture and Sustainable Design
• DAI: Design and Artificial Intelligence
• EPD: Engineering Product Development
• ESD: Engineering Systems and Design
• HASS: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• ISTD: Information Systems Technology and Design
• SMT: Science, Mathematics and Technology

Course Details

02.143DH Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

The advances in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have started to raise ethical problems. These problems are of different kinds: on the one hand, philosophers and scientists have started asking whether computers, once they reach a certain level of intelligence comparable with human beings, should be granted certain rights. On the other hand, there is the question of how to regulate AI in such a way that, in the pursuit of its goals, it is not harmful to human beings.

In this course, we will analyze these questions in order to:

1. Check their assumptions and understand on what kind of presuppositions these very assumptions are based
2. Try to elaborate new ways to approach the so-called AI and to formulate more productive questions out of a deeper understanding of the phenomenon

Learning Objectives

1. Acquire knowledge of the current state of the debate on AI
2. Acquire skills to analyze the fundamental assumptions that are at the base of the debate itself
3. On the basis of the readings and of class discussions, formulate new hypotheses for a different understanding of computers in relation to the human being

Course Requirement

Assessment | Percentage
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WEC – Class participation | 20
WEC – Oral Exam | 30
WEC – Final Exam | 30
WEC – Group presentation | 20

Course Map

• WEEKS 1-2: What is Intelligence?
• WEEKS 3-4: The "Intelligent" Organization of Society
• WEEKS 5-6: The Role of Informatics in Our Society
• WEEKS 8-9: Man in the Era of the Machine
• WEEKS 10-11: Is a Different Understanding Needed?
• WEEKS 12-13: The Phenomenology of AI or On Enduring Cartesianism
• WEEK 14: FINAL EXAMS

Instructor

Paolo Di Leo

Research and Innovation

The university is involved in various research and innovation initiatives, including:

• Design·AI Research
• Design·AI Innovation
• Design·AI Enterprise

Campus Life

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• Student experience
• Global experience and exchange
• Career development
• Student well-being
• Academic facilities
• Housing
• Sports and recreation centre
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• Library