Class Discussions
Capital punishment, also known as the ____, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for a crime.
What is the death penalty?
The implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits.
What is a Social Contract?
The important idea here is that a person be non-identifiable, unreachable, or untrackable over the internet
What is anonymity?
If the weather is warm in Rochester after a long winter do not be fooled, ___ season is not here...
What is Spring?
The coding language that is used to build websites
What is HTML?
Technology that is smart, and can be created to do simple or complicated tasks or even mimic humans and their actions
What is Artificial Intelligence?
The doctrine that an action is right insofar as it promotes happiness, and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the guiding principle of conduct.
What is Utilitarianism?
The collection of exchanges where regular activities of buying, selling, trading and issuance of shares of publicly-held companies take place
What is the stock market?
The AI who appeared in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Who is HAL 9000?
This can be used to hide your I.P. address when you are surfing the web
What is a VPN?
An organization (that happens to spark a lot of controversy) that provides essential health care services like: STD testing and treatment, birth control, well-woman exams, cancer screening and prevention, abortion, hormone therapy, infertility services, and general health care for men and women, but mostly women.
What is Planned Parenthood?
What is the most popular/normative ethical philosophy that most people follow in the United States?
What is Utilitarianism?
Synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness. Can be used to create misleading photos or videos of a person
What are deep fakes?
The month, day, and year, America joined World War I
What is April 6, 1917?
The settings part of a social networking website, internet browser, etc. that allows you to control who sees information about you
What are Privacy Settings?
Algorithmic __ describes systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes, such as privileging one arbitrary group of users over others because of algorithms that reflect "systematic and unfair" discrimination, due to the programmer’s own personal __.
What is bias?
This family of theories exemplifies the idea that maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain is the principal ethic.
What is Hedonism?
__ are built specifically for Internet web browsers to track, personalize, and save information about each user's session. A “session” just refers to the time you spend on a site. __ are created to identify you when you visit a new website.
What are cookies?
The name of a space shuttle that blew up on January 28, 1986, killing the crew.
What is Challenger?
Refers to the body of technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from attack, damage, or unauthorized access.
What is Cyber Security?
A category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. The most well-known types are copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
What is intellectual property?
The name of the philosophy that an action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules, rather than based on the consequences of the action.
What is Deontology?
The process of encoding information. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext. Ideally, only authorized parties can decipher a ciphertext back to plaintext and access the original information.
What is encryption?
The name of the person who believed we can have a civilization of the mind in cyberspace.
Who is John Perry Barlow?
A 2004 American science fiction action film based In 2035, where highly intelligent robots fill public service positions throughout the dystopian world, operating under three rules to keep humans safe. Detective Del Spooner (WIll Smith) investigates the alleged suicide of U.S. Robotics founder Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell) and believes that a human-like robot murdered him.
What is I,Robot?