INQ-120 | Do New Technologies Lead to the Good Life?

Topic Description:

This is an ethics course designed to help us think about the ways that new technologies – especially generative AI – lead to or keep us from achieving the good life. We will think about our own relationship to AI as we place it in the context of emerging technologies in the past. Questions will include: How have technologies impacted our ability to experience the world fully and engage with others? Is it responsible to use a technology that harms communities and the environment?  Should we create alternatives to modern technologies if the communities they produce are elitist and exclusive?  What is the best and most responsible use of our time? To help answer these questions, we will also explore alternatives to digital technology in everyday life (including a deliberately analog classroom environment).

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2025