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FA25 INFO I453

A curated collection of objects from the Lilly Library with reflections on the object's connection to ethical theory and emerging computer and information ethics across time. Created by students in INFO I453 FALL 2025, Computer & Information Ethics. All images used with permission from the Lilly Library

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Faculty & Instructors

Instructor

Alexis Peirce Caudell

abpeirce@iu.edu

Associate Instructors

Samiksha Shailendra Pawar
sampawar@iu.edu

James Taylor
jtt1@iu.edu

Chelsea Carter
carter51@iu.edu

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  • Main image for Poetic Algorithms.

    0ln4

    Not long ago, in 2021, when ChatGPT was still in its early years, a writer wanted to use this innovative technology in a way that the world has never experienced before. Can AI construct well-versed poetic pieces, which is one of humankind’s oldest c...

  • Main image for DOW Shalt Read.

    dvyo

    Howard Zinn’s Dow Shalt Not Kill, or, The Civil Liberties of Napalm studies how routine university decisions shape moral character during the Vietnam War. Using a virtue ethics lens, I examine whether hosting Dow recruiting cultivates courage and jus...

  • Main image for AUM GOLLY.

    oq6o

    “Aum Golly” explores poetry co-created by humans and artificial intelligence, raising questions about authorship, creativity, and the meaning of humanity. These works, written with GPT-3, invite readers to consider how machines can shape art and cult...

  • Main image for Media as Weapon.

    77gy

    Gran Fury’s The New York Crimes (1989) was a four-page newspaper that copied the style of the New York Times to call out government inaction during the AIDS crisis. Distributed secretly in New York vending boxes, it exposed issues like collapsing hos...

  • Main image for Media, Power, Responsibility.

    cizf

    Media, Power, Responsibility looks at ACT UP’s activist newspaper The New York Crimes (1989). This piece parodied The New York Times to call out how major media failed to cover the AIDS crisis responsibly. It shows how silence and distortion in the n...

  • Main image for The Electro Fraud.

    2awk

    In the early 1890’s, a man self-proclaimed as the “Discoverer of the Laws of Spontaneous Cure of Disease” brought a product to market called the Electropoise, or as I like to call it, The ElectroFraud. There was nothing electric about the Electropois...

  • Main image for Great Calculating Plan.

    tapw

    Inventors and engineers have long dreamed of machines that could relieve humans of tedious mental labor. Babbage's Calculating Engines (London, 1889) draws us into the world of 19th-century innovation, where precision engineering sparked hopes for a ...

  • Main image for Fruits of Philosophy.

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    Birth control can be a polarizing topic amongst people, even in the 1800's. Charles Knowlton was so passionate that he wrote a pamphlet (The Fruits of Philosophy) to pass out to women at their appointments with him so they could be more knowledgeable...

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