AI and LLMs: Ethics

Author

Robert W. Walker

Published

April 16, 2026

LLM’s are models.

Today, we explore the ethical implications of their use.

Slides

Slides

The class plan:

  1. Ethics and LLMs: 10 areas for discussion.

Ethics: What are the risks of simulating living persons? Deepfakes, etc. but perhaps less excessive. From last time.
10 more this time.

Readings:

Stochastic Parrots

The biggest current concern of such models was not unseen by Timnit Gebru, among others….