An AI Ethics Course Highlighting Explicit Ethical Agents

Abstract

This is an experience report describing a pilot AI Ethics course for undergraduate computer science majors. In addition to teaching students about different ethical approaches and using them to analyze ethical issues, the course covered how ethics has been incorporated into the implementation of explicit ethical agents, and required students to implement an explicit ethical agent for a simple application. This report describes the course objectives and design, the topics covered, and a qualitative evaluation with suggestions for future offerings of the courses.