Black Mirror

Neil Ernst

University of Victoria

2025-07-24

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Read the story, Corey Doctorow’s Car Wars.

Topics

Where could technology or a social system go next that would be worthy of a Black Mirror episode?

Where can technology take us that will benefit society and make things better? How can we get to those futures?

What does ChatGPT say about this? Can you get it to say bad or good things? Is there anything surprising?

read the story discuss the concepts in the small groups relate this to Data Mining / ML present the group’s discussions I summarize the ethics class

Assignment: summarize the discussions across all the groups in a 2 page summary. Add your reflections at the end on the discussion as a whole.