Want to help shape the future of AI? Here’s how you can start…
Play
Experience the possible future of AI!
Open Sorcery
You are an Elemental Firewall – a fire element bound with C++ code – protecting a network of people and places. The character grows and learns, ‘gaining sentience’ similar to how AI learns. Play it on: Android
Portal
AI takes over! As a player, you are challenged by an AI named GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) to escape by completing puzzles. Play it on: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3
AI Dungeon
A choose-your-own-adventure generative AI game, where your choices help write the next steps. Play it on: Android, iPhone
Watch
AI in focus on Netflix. Don’t forget your popcorn!
OUR CODED BIAS
Explore the bias in different AI algorithms, based on the flaws of facial recognition.
THE FUTURE OF
How can AI be applied to the way we live? Have a look at the ‘Dogs’, ‘Dating’, and ‘Sports’ episodes!
UNKNOWN: KILLER ROBOTS
Should we be applying artificial intelligence to military applications? This makes you think about what happens when a machine makes life-or-death decisions.
Listen
Podcasts for when you’re generating phrases with ChatGPT…
In Machines We Trust
MIT Technology Review writer jennifer Strong looks at the impact of AI on our daily lives. From house training a robot, to the future of farming from space!
Pomegranate Health – When AI Goes Wrong
Speaking on the Pomegranate Health podcast, Macquarie University academics look at what the consequences are of using AI in health.
The Bot Canon
What would happen if AI wrote all our classic books? Hannah Keefer reads a new classic text each episode, and then continues with what the AI has come up with from a prompt of the book.
Study
Studying a Bachelor of Information Technology, majoring in Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie Uni will give you an edge in your AI career. Or consider these course options:
- Bachelor of IT (AI + Philosophy) double major
- Bachelor of IT (AI + Applied Ethics) double major
- Bachelor of IT (AI) / Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy or Applied Ethics) double degree
Checklist for electives
Choose these subjects to follow the path of an AI ethicist:
- Digital Technologies
- Philosophy and Ethics
- Social Sciences
This article was first published in our AI Ethicist Job Kit, created in partnership with Macquarie University.
