Schedule

🗓️ Course Schedule
Unit I | Philosophy
Week
	Date
	Topic
	
1.1
	Jan 13
	Class Introduction
	
1.2
	Jan 15
	Intelligence, Consciousness, Sentience
	
2.1
	Jan 20
	Crash Course: Emergence Phenomena & Systems Thinking
	
2.2
	Jan 22
	Evaluating Intelligence
	
3.1
	Jan 27
	AI Embodiment, Agency, & Responsibility
	
3.2
	Jan 29
	Debate I

Unit II | Technology
Week
	Date
	Topic
	
4.1
	Feb 3
	Crash Course: Designing AI: Computers & Technology
	
4.2
	Feb 5
	Data Privacy and Algorithmic Bias
	
5.1
	Feb 10
	Energy
	
5.2
	Feb 12
	Debate II

Unit III | Business
Week
	Date
	Topic
	
6.1
	Feb 17
	Crash Course: Building AI: Business & Economics
	
6.2
	Feb 19
	Financing AI
	
7.1
	Feb 24
	Labor Replacement I
	
7.2
	Feb 26
	Debate III

Unit IV | Geopolitics
Week
	Date
	Topic
	
8.1
	Mar 3
	Core Exam
	
8.2
	Mar 5
	Crash Course: Negotiating AI: Geopolitics & The World
	
9.1
	Mar 17
	Geopolitics
	
9.2
	Mar 19
	Debate IV

Unit V | Policy
Week
	Date
	Topic
	
10.1
	Mar 24
	Crash Course: Managing AI: Domestic Politics & Governance
	
10.2
	Mar 26
	Labor Replacement II
	
11.1
	Mar 31
	Democracy & AI
	
11.2
	Apr 2
	Debate V

Unit VI | Humanity
Week
	Date
	Topic
	
12.1
	Apr 7
	Crash Course: Assessing AI: Harms, Implications, and Futures
	
12.2
	Apr 9
	Authoritarianism and AI
	
13.1
	Apr 14
	Singularities, xRisk, & AGI
	
13.2
	Apr 16
	Debate VI
	
14.1
	Apr 21
	Final Presentations
	
14.2
	Apr 23
	Final Presentations

This is a tentative course schedule. Content subject to change.
Key
Crash Course - lecture day; no student discussion leader
🗒️ Notes
A Note on Readings
All readings may be found linked from the course content pages. Readings will be posted at least one week ahead of time. Each day will have one or two primary sources that should be read, listened to, or watched in full, a series of simpler secondary readings (often, news coverage, podcasts, and/or videos) that should be browsed or scanned, and (frequently) further secondary and background reference reading for those interested in diving deeper.
Undergraduate students are expected to read or listen to the primary source(s) for the day and scan background readings.
Graduate students are expected to read or listen to the primary source(s), scan secondary readings, and select one or more of the secondary or background readings to read in further depth, as well.