Showing posts with label "students’ ability to make ethical considerations should be trained like a muscle". Show all posts
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Sunday, June 24, 2018

This Swedish Tech School Teaches AI Ethics 'Like A Muscle'; Forbes, June 21, 2018

Parmy Olson, Forbes; This Swedish Tech School Teaches AI Ethics 'Like A Muscle'

"Obvious questions perhaps, but some would argue that consumers today are addicted to social media and smartphones because ethics wasn’t more deeply integrated into leading technology schools like Stanford University in the past, and for the students who went on to lead the likes of Google, Facebook and Apple.

The average person checks their phone more than 150 times a day, says Tash Willcocks, who heads up the Manchester, U.K. division of of Hyper Island. “We live by the design choices of others.”   

Hyper Island has around 150 master’s degree students across the world, mostly in physical classes, paying £11,000 ($14,500) a year to be on the graduate course. “The students’ ability to make ethical considerations should be trained like a muscle,” Wilcocks adds."