Artificial Intelligence
Course | Available (Membership Required)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere these days, presented to us with a sort of giddy excitement that presages “the future is already here.” But is the future really already here, and if it is, is this really the future we want? This course will offer a complete guided tour of the tech behind AI (no tech background necessary), as well as of the larger political, ethical, and social questions that accompany the sudden arrival and rapid expansion of AI. Among other things, we will seek to answer the question of whether AI is the next way forward for humanity, or the beginning of our end.
Darren Zook
Darren C. Zook, PhD has taught for 16 years at UC Berkeley, and has been recognized numerous times for his contributions to education on campus. He teaches courses on comparative politics, security studies, human rights, and conflict resolution, and has extensive field experience in nearly every part of the world, including two trips to North Korea. In 2012 he was a Fulbright Research Scholar based in Singapore, conducting research on cybersecurity threats in the Asia-Pacific region.