This course examines how artificial intelligence systems and digital automation technologies reshape activities, discourses, and imagined futures within contemporary life. Students explore AI systems’ histories, technical affordances, and ethical/social impacts and connect them to broader social, ethical, and philosophical debates around the role of digital technologies in modern societies.

Antirequisite(s): MIT 4031F/G if taken in 2020-21 or 2023-24; MediaCom 3446A/B if taken in 2024-25 or 2025-26.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.