Research Guides: ENGL 1A: Science, Ethics, and Society (Nanda): Home

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society

In November 2022, ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (GAI) program, was released for use by the general public. Other products soon followed. Convenient and easy to use, and able to communicate with people using natural language and to create content that appears to have been produced by human beings, these programs were adopted for use quickly and on a wide scale. They have now affected every aspect of modern life. However, as their use has expanded, concerns have grown about the ethical and societal problems raised by the rapid and uncontrolled use of generative artificial intelligence. In our two library research sessions, we will explore some of these concerns, focusing on how to use the following skills to aid in our research:

Identifying an aspect of the GAI debate you want to explore
Locating information from different types of sources
Evaluating this information to be sure it's reliable and can be used in your presentation.

Exercise 1 - Let's Get Started!

Browse through the following two articles about generative artificial intelligence. If they do not open for you immediately when you click the title links below, click the "Access Options" box that will appear on the screen, and select PDF, so you can read the full text of the articles as PDFs. If you are off campus, you will need to authenticate with your SCU ID and password to access the articles.

1. I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT

2. How Artificial Intelligence Augments Biological Intelligence

Now answer the questions in "Exercise 1: Two Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence," which you will find in Module 5 in the Camino site for this course.