Overview

Over the last few weeks, we have discussed issues related to Freedom of Speech and Artificial Intelligence. For this fourth project, you are to work in groups of 2-4 to produce artifacts that further explores the following topics:

1. Political action on Net Neutrality.

2. Hollywood's portrayal of artificial intelligence.

For this project, no personal reflection is required.

Option 1: Net Neutrality

For the first option, you are to read up on the latest changes to the FCC and its plans on net neutrality:

• FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see and use

• FCC will also order states to scrap plans for their own net neutrality laws

• Net neutrality: why are Americans so worried about it being scrapped?

• FCC explains why public support for net neutrality won’t stop repeal

• I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

• The Internet Had Already Lost Its Neutrality

• Network Neutrality Can't Fix the Internet

Once you have done some background research on the current state of net neutrality, you are to do one of the following:

1. Write a letter to editor to either the Observer or a newspaper such as South Bend Tribune advocating a position on the issue of net neutrality and the proposed FCC changes.

2. Write a letter to your government representatives advocating a position on the issue of net neutrality and the proposed FCC changes.

You are to submit your artifact and proof of your submission to a newspaper or to your government representative.

Option 2: AI in the Movies

For the second option, you are to watch a movie that explores artificial intelligence:

1. Ex Machina

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey

3. I, Robot

4. The Terminator

5. Bicentennial Man

6. Moon

7. Ghost in the Shell

8. Her

9. Blade Runner

10. Matrix

11. Artificial Intelligence

12. Wall-E

After watching the film, provide a group review of the movie in a podcast or video that answers the following questions:

1. Describe the role the artificial intelligence played in the movie. Was the AI the villain, hero, or simply a supporting character?

2. Discuss which aspects of the AI were believable and what parts seem unrealistic. Is this merely an imaginative work, or is it representative of future possibilities.

3. Discuss how humans reacted or related to the AI. Were humans scared of AI? Welcoming? Unconcerned?

4. Discuss how the AI reacted or related to the humans. Was the AI hostile or friendly?

5. What was the final message or theme of the movie? What insight into the nature of humanity did the AI expose?

6. Finally, what was your overall impression of the movie? Thumbs up or thumbs down?

You are to submit your artifact.

Submission

Your project is due at 11:59 PM Saturday, December 2, 2017. The group artifact should be put on a student's blog or a storage site such as Google Drive. (There is no individual reflection for this project).

To submit your project, one group member should fill out the following form