Embedded EthiCSTM @ Harvard Bringing ethical reasoning into the computer science curriculum
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Teaching Responsible Computing Approach
A pedagogical collaboration between Computer Science and Philosophy that embeds the teaching of ethical reasoning directly into existing CS courses.
The embedding aims both to integrate ethical and CS content and to distribute the teaching of ethical reasoning across the CS curriculum.
Teaching Responsible Computing Playbook
A collaboration of an inaugural 32 authors and contributors across disciplines and computing programs.
This Playbook was made possible by the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, funded by Omidyar Network, Mozilla Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
A by no means definitive list of resources for those interested in cyberethics. Please send entry suggestions to us at: embeddedethics@g.harvard.edu
Harvard Undergrad Clubs
- Harvard Computer Society (HCS)
- Harvard Computer Society Tech for Social Good
- ReCompute – Harvard Responsible Computing Collective
- Women in Computer Science (WiCS)
- Women in Computer Science chatter list
- Many people in WiCS are interested in ethics, societal issues, etc.
Non-Harvard Institutes and Initiatives
- ACM EngageCSEdu Embedding Ethics Repository
- All Tech is Human
- Bemidji State Responsible Computer Science Repository
- Bucknell University Ethical CS
- Casey Fiesler’s Internet Rules Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder
- Colby College / Bowdoin College Computing Narratives case studies
- Computer Ethics at UC Berkeley
- Computing Ethics Narratives
- Digital Life Initiative @ Cornell Tech
- Georgia Tech Responsible Computing Science
- Joy Buolamwini’s Algorithmic Justice League
- Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab
- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
- MIT case studies
- Mozilla Foundation Responsible Computer Science Challenge
- Mozilla Foundation Responsible Computing Playbook for Embedding Computing Ethics
- Rotman Institute
- Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing at MIT
- Socially Responsible Computing @ Brown
- Stanford (Human-centered Artificial Intelligence) HAI
- Stanford Cyber Policy Center
- Stanford Ethics, Society, & Technology Hub
- Teaching Responsible Computing
- Tech Transparency Project
- The Ethics Institute at Northeastern University
- The Ethics Lab at Georgetown University
- Timnit Gebru’s Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research DAIR Institut
- UC Berkeley Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public
- University of Cambridge Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public
- University of Massachusetts Boston Applied Ethics Center
Related Harvard Courses
- CS 90ndr: Case Studies in Public and Private Policy Challenges of Artificial Intelligence – Syllabus
- CS 105: Privacy and Technology
- CS 108: Intelligent Systems: Design and Ethical Challenges
- CS 126: Fairness and Privacy
- CS 208: Applied Privacy for Data Science
- AC 221: Critical Thinking in Data Science
- CS 238: Optimized Democracy
- CS 266r: Topics in Theory for Society: The Theory of Algorithmic Fairness (Spring 2024)
- CS 276: Design, Technology, and Social Impact
- CS 288: AI for Social Impact
- DPI 640: Technology and the Public Interest: From Democracy to Technocracy and Back
- Gen Ed 1058: Tech Ethics: AI, Biotech, and the Future of Human Nature
- Program on Science, Technology, and Society
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