Ghosts
Week Four: Ghosts — Reading
[ ENG 6806 // FALL 2026 // WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14, 2026 ]
Readings: moved into this week for 2026
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Melanie Mitchell Substack 'Magical Thinking on AI', response to Friedman]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Mitchell post continues: Claude red-teaming, Shanahan on LLM roleplay]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Mitchell post continues: moral reasoning, magical thinking conclusion]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Sony Aibo Figure 22 and 'Chapter 8: Rewards for Robots' title]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.8 Figure 25 diagrams: robot dog reinforcement-learning iterations]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: 'Chapter 9: Game On' title, Figure 27 Atari Breakout illustration]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.9 text: transfer learning limits, Hofstadter quote on 'state']
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: 'Chapter 11: Words, and the Company They Keep' title, NLP intro]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.11 continues: rule-based vs statistical vs deep-learning NLP history]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.11: sentiment classification, 'Temple of Doom' review examples]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.11 Figure 35 word2vec diagram and 'company it keeps' text]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: 'Chapter 12: Translation as Encoding and Decoding' title, Google Translate anecdote]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.12 Figures 39-40: Google image-captioning system, sample captions]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Quote card citing 'Algorithms of Oppression', algorithms as arbiters]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text: AI as human rights issue, algorithmic decision making]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text on Bitch magazine article, Google Panda algorithm]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text on racism/sexism in tech, Black women and girls]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text: 'algorithmic oppression... fundamental to the web']
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text on missing social/human context in algorithms]