School’s In Session

Tonight I kick off a class from Stanford called Ethics, Technology, and Public Policy for Practitioners. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve been involved with formal education (about 10 years actually), but I’m pretty excited. Not just for the learning, but for the people I’ll meet along the way, who appear to be a fantastically variegated bunch based on what I’ve seen on Slack so far.

Here’s the course description from the syllabus:

Our goal is to explore the ethical and social impacts of technological innovation. We will integrate perspectives from computer science, philosophy, and social science to provide learning experiences that robustly and holistically examine the impact of technology on humans and societies.

Basically it’s Jud catnip. If it sounds interesting to you, I think it’s offered periodically. Here’s a link for future reference.