Assistant Professor of Romance Languages ​​and Literatures and Film Studies Allison Cooper, Assistant Professor of Digital and Computer Studies Fernando Nascimento, and Stacy doore, who is Clare Boothe Luce’s assistant professor of computer science at Colby College, have announced the completion of a pioneering project they’ve been working on for two and a half years.
In April 2019, Bowdoin was among the institutions selected to participate in a highly competitive national initiative (Doore was then part of Bowdoin faculty, before moving to Colby in 2020). the Responsible IT challenge, run by the Mozilla Foundation, among others, is a $ 3.5 million competition to embed ethics into undergraduate computer science programs at U.S. colleges and universities.
At the heart of the Computing Ethics Narratives project, as it is called, is the idea of ​​storytelling. The newly launched website features a repository with hundreds of non-fiction stories, including academic articles, tech news articles, podcasts, and blogs. and video clips such as TED lectures – and fictional tales, which include literary sources, as well as clips from technology-themed movies and TV shows, all carefully curated by professors and college students. film studies.
Films include science fiction classics such as Fritz Lang Metropolis (1927), by Ridley Scott Blade runner (1982), and Artificial Intelligence AI (2001), directed by Stephen Spielberg, while featured TV shows include Black mirror (2011-2013) and Dev (2020). The website is designed to help computer instructors, offering them advice on how to approach ethically difficult topics like predictive policing or algorithmic bias, and directing them to relevant movie clips that help tell the story. the story.*
Cooper, Doore and Nascimento shared their thoughts on the project in a YouTube video featured on the project’s website. The full video can be accessed below, but here’s a edited selection of their comments.
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