Reading Bytes: Alan F. Blackwell’s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI (2024)

In 2024-25, the Centre for Digital Humanities' Reading Bytes series will discuss Alan F. Blackwell’s Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI (MIT Press, 2024).

Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI focuses on a timely topic that is causing a great deal of concern and anxiety in higher learning and in society more broadly: recent developments in AI (artificial intelligence). Blackwell’s book provides an opportunity to discuss the possibility of a more equitable and beneficial approach to the design and use of AI.

Each month we will read and discuss one or more chapters of Moral Codes. Participants are free to join discussions any month without having attended earlier Reading Bytes.

In September, we will discuss Chapter 1: “Are You Paying Attention?” (pp. 1-20).