1st Paper: In this pre-workshop reading reflection, you will write a 600-800 wor

1st Paper: In this pre-workshop reading reflection, you will write a 600-800 word essay (approx. 2-3 pages double spaced). Your
response should substantially and thoughtfully engage with AT LEAST THREE readings – including at least one
from EACH of the disciplinary perspectives (Moral/Political Philosophy & Media Studies). Reflection papers
should not be summaries but, rather, are opportunities for you to critically reflect on readings from both disciplines, and
to use these readings to engage thoughtfully with the ethical themes related to the topic of technology, such as the
relationship between knowledge, power, and surveillance. You are encouraged to identify questions, connections to
other readings, and ideas triggered by the readings
Readings for this paper are:
Mona Simion. (2023). Knowledge and Disinformation. Episteme, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2023.25
Mark Coekelbergh. (2023). Democracy, Epistemic Agency, and AI: Political Epistemology in Times of Artificial
Intelligence. AI and Ethics, 3, 1341-1350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00239-4
Virginia Eubanks. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. New York: St Martin’s
Press. Chapter 1: From Poorhouse to Database
I have attached all of these readings
2nd Paper: In this pre-workshop reading reflection, you will write a 600-800 word essay (approx. 2-3 pages double spaced) that
responds to the following lines of inquiry, in light of the readings:
1) What difference (if any) does it makes that any given observer of (or contributor to) the debate over the
ethical management of Artificial Intelligence possesses certain prior theological or philosophical commitments?
(i.e., does it matter that one’s starting point includes a theistic worldview, or perhaps a proclivity towards
embracing consequentialism or deontology, etc.?); and
2) How would you characterize the existing and the expected effect of a rapid acceleration of the use of Artificial
Intelligence in the workplace? Based on what you know (and what you read for today’s unit of our course), do
you expect an amplification of currently observed effects, or might we expect something qualitatively different
from what we have witnessed thus far?; and
3) What labor issues are emerging from the use of algorithmic management? In what ways are these distinct
from ethical issues that have arisen in the workplace previously?
Reading for this paper:
Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations, AI Research Group for the Centre for
Digital Culture of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, edited by Matthew J. Gaudet, Noreen
Herzfeld, Paul Scherz and Jordan J. Wales. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, August 2024.
This book-length Vatican document is available at this url link: https://jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/91230-
encountering-artificial-intelligence-ethical-and-anthropological-investigations
Read the following chapters:
Preface (pp. x – xii)
Introduction (pp. 1-23)
Chapter 1 “Approaches to AI Ethics” (pp. 24-40)
Chapter 2 “AI and the Human Person” (pp. 43-68)
Chapter 6 “Artificial Intelligence and Catholic Social Teaching” (pp. 147-60)
“Message of Pope Francis for World Day of Peace, 1, January 2024: Artificial Intelligence and Peace.”
Available via Blackboard or, directly at the Vatican website (in several languages) at:
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/peace/documents/20231208-messaggio-
57giornatamondiale-pace2024.html
SOCIOLOGY
Rob Kitchin. (2017). Thinking critically about and researching algorithms. Information, Communication & Society, 20(1),
14-29.
Mike Cook. (2021). The Social Responsibility of Game AI. 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), Copenhagen, Denmark,
2021, 1-8.
Jamie Woodcock. (2021) The Limits of Algorithmic Management: On Platforms, Data, and Workers’ Struggle. The South
Atlantic Quarterly, 120(4), 703-713.
Sherry. (2020) Living as a Turker. Notes from Below, Issue 13: From the Workplace.
Alice Barker. (2020). Cycling in the City. Notes from Below, Issue 13: From the Workplace.
John Holland. (2020). Amazon Inquiry. Notes from Below, Issue 13: From the Workplace.
Igor Burtan. (2020). The Work that Helps You Get Back to Streaming. Notes from Below, Issue 13: From the Workplace.
I have attached all of the readings
3rd Paper: In this pre-workshop reading reflection, you will write a 600-800 word essay (approx. 2-3 pages double spaced). Your
response should substantially and thoughtfully engage with AT LEAST THREE readings – including at least one from EACH
of the disciplinary perspectives (Bioethics & Social Work). Reflection papers should not be summaries but,
rather, are opportunities for you to critically reflect on readings from both disciplines, and to use these readings to
engage thoughtfully with the ethical themes related to the topic of technology, such as the relationship between social
and structural justice, and the ways in which algorithmic tools can reify inequalities or ameliorate them. You are
encouraged to identify questions, connections to other readings, and ideas triggered by the readings.
Readings for this paper:
Specker Sullivan, Laura. (2023). “Health and Digital Technology Partnerships: Too Close for Comfort?” Oxford Handbook
of Digital Ethics. Edited by Carissa Veliz. Oxford University Press.
McKeown, M. (2021). “Structural injustice.” Philosophy Compass, 16(7), e12757. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12757
Taylor, Linnet. (2017). ‘What is data justice? The case for connecting digital rights and freedoms globally’
,Big Data & Society, 2, 1-14.
Goldkind, Lauri, Wolf, Lea, & LaMendola, Walter. (2021).
‘Data justice: social work and a more just future’
, Journal of Community Practice, DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2021.1984354
Pohl, Barbara and Goldkind, Lauri. (2023) ‘AI Folk Tales: How nontechnical publics make sense of artificial intelligence’, Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and Communication, 246-266.
All readings are attached
It is important to have at least the first paper done by May 14th at 8am or sooner.