Essay

Read the PDF’s for Week 5 on Moodle. They’ll be used to help you complete the homework for this week.

Watch Steven Pinker’s “Is the world getting better or worse?,” Marc Goodman’s “A Vision of Crimes in the Future,” Vijay Kumar’s “The Future of Flying Robots,” Sebastian Thrun’s “Google’s Driverless Car,” and P.W. Singer’s “Military Robots and the Future of War.”

Read President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, Ed Yong’s “Mutant-flu Paper Published,” “ Bioterrorism could kill more than nuclear war but no one is ready to deal with it,” and “Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian War, Study Says,” “Moore’s Law keeps going, defies expectations,” “Musk, Zuckerberg face off on AI’s future,” “Asimov’s Laws won’t stop robots harming humans, so we’ve developed a better solution,” and Allison Linn’s “The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Myths, Realties, and Inspirations.”