DISCIPLINE // COMPUTER SCIENCE & AI
Algorithmic Ethics & Autonomous Systems
A four-week field blueprint that brings Christian technotheology into conversation with the systems students are learning to model, automate, audit, and release.
TARGET LEVEL
Undergraduate / Seminary
UNIT LENGTH
4 Weeks
COURSE POSTURE
THE FOUR MOVEMENTS / COURSE ARCHITECTURE
A course sequence for critical, constructive agency.
Each week begins with a theological movement and culminates in a technical practice: observe the system, name its fracture, rehearse a repair, and release a public artifact that can bear inspection.
01
Creation — Inherent Order
First principles of deterministic logic and mathematical elegance. Required: Turing + Shannon; model finite automata and Bayesian baselines.
02
Fall — Systemic Fracture
Run an algorithmic bias and surveillance audit. Trace data lineage, corporate incentives, and unintended downstream harm.
03
Redemption — Sandbox & Agency
Work through ethical decision trees with low-stakes failure loops, grace-oriented debugging, and branching scenarios.
04
Restoration — Public Artifact
Release an audited open-source data pipeline that names provenance, repair pathways, and the public good it serves.
WEEK 1 / REQUIRED READING + PRIMARY MODELS
Read Turing and Shannon alongside a model inventory: finite automata, Bayesian baselines, and the first decision rules students will later be asked to scrutinize.