Humanity and its Futures: AI and Human Cognition

Harvard FAS

This course provides students with an understanding of the complexities surrounding today’s most intractable problems and helps them develop methodologies for navigating the challenges they will face. After introducing systems thinking, with a focus on interconnections and feedback loops, the course will address a significant interdisciplinary issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its relationship to human cognition. The study of AI and human cognition is both timely and dynamic. This…