COMMS 208 • Test #1 • 2026
Test Day!!
PLEASE
- • All phones / devices OFF and stored in your bag
- ➔ Then — leave your bag at the front of the class
- ➔ Then — each student may take ONE test
- • Do NOT open test until instructed to do so
You may have with you:
- ✓ Handwritten notes covering ONE sheet of standard (A4) printer paper
- ✓ Pencils / Pens
- ✓ Optional: Printed dictionary
Time
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COMMS 208 • Test #1 • 2026
Course Readings
- 1 AI Essentials Canvas Course (UoA)
- 2 Anatomy of an AI System (Crawford & Joler)
- 3 Benefits of AI in healthcare for Aotearoa NZ: Summary (PMCSA)
- 4 Physiognomy’s New Clothes (Agüera y Arcas, et al.)
- 5 AI Ethics: Seven Traps (Zimmermann & Zevenbergen)
- 6 Principles of Māori Data Sovereignty (Te Mana Raraunga)
- 7 Data Feminism: The Power Chapter (D’Ignazio & Klein)
- 8 Ethics & Info. Technology (Johnson & Miller)
- 9 Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement (Murray)
- 10 IP and Confucianism (Yu)
- 11 Milestones in the History of Info. and Computer Ethics (Bynum)
- 12 A Moral Panic: ChatGPT and the Gamification of Education (Kennedy)
- 13 Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy (Ray & Guest)
- 14 Contestation of Tech Ethics (Green)