Extended Education

AI and Society: A Critical Inquiry (EEAS 0010)

This short course explores artificial intelligence beyond its immediate technical applications, asking deeper questions about intelligence, consciousness, judgment, and human agency. Drawing on thinkers including Immanuel Kant, Alan Turing, and Marshall McLuhan, learners will examine how AI works, what its capabilities do and do not tell us about thinking, and how to exercise critical judgment about what we choose to augment, delegate, or preserve. Designed to take learners beyond AI hype to develop an informed, critical understanding and address what AI’s growing role in activities associated with thinking, writing, judgment, and creativity may mean for human agency and society.

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    Course length

    18 contact hours

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    Format

    Online synchronous

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    Course fees

    $467.25
    Pricing subject to change without notice

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    Recognition of learning

    Will appear on official UM transcripts

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Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

  • explain the key ideas and developments that shaped contemporary AI, from formal reasoning to machine learning and generative AI
  • distinguish among intelligence, reasoning, understanding, consciousness, and agency when assessing claims about AI
  • explain conceptually how contemporary AI works, what it can do, and where its limitations remain
  • examine AI within its broader philosophical, social, cultural, political, and technological contexts
  • apply critical judgment to decisions about when, why, and how AI should be used, including what human capabilities to augment, delegate, or preserve

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