FYS 120R: Ethics in the Age of AI

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Searching Catalyst by SUBJECT is the smartest way to search the book catalog. The best way to do this is to search Catalyst using the Advanced Search feature. Subjects are systematically applied to all records in the book catalog using a controlled library vocabulary. Once you discover Subjects that describe your research topic well, you simply click on them and Catalyst will do a search using that Subject term. I've listed below some Subject terms that should be of help.

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Finding AI and Ethics information

St. Olaf uses the Library of Congress Classification to organize books. Call number (book number) prefixes are as follows for philosophy, ethics, and cybernetics:

B: Philosophy (5th floor Rolvaag)
BJ: Ethics (5th floor Rolvaag)
Q300 - Q390: Cybernetics (2nd floor Rolvaag)

You are free to browse these collections, however since technology changes so quickly you may want to search Catalyst for ebooks since those will be more up to date.