This is a non-comprehensive reading list I originally put together for students of my Intermediate Programming class at Woodbury University, Spring 2018. I consider it a work in progress and am open to suggestions for inclusion.

Pre-History

• Eliza

Design Principles

• Designing A Chatbot’s Personality in Chatbots Magazine
• Designing Chatbot Personalities from FastCoDesign
• What Chatbots Reveal About Our Own Shortcomings

Utopia/Dystopia

• Move Over Chatbots, Here Come The Artbots
• Microsoft deletes ‘teen girl’ AI after it became a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours
• From Russia, with Love, links to PDF
• Video of BINA48 and info
• Speak Memory - a chatbot with the dead
• How Russian Bots Invade Our Elections video

Bot Ethics

• Hard Questions About Bot Ethics
• When Chatbots Lack Diversity, This is What Happens
• Why Do So Many Digital Assistants Have Feminine Names
• BIGOTED BOTS: RACIAL AND GENDER BIAS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• IBM’’s Code of ethics for AI and Chatbots that every brand should follow

Tools and Techniques

• Cheap Bots Done Quick
• EstherBot: My Resume, as a Bot
• Building a Conversational Bot with Javascript and Node
• Handy-bots starter code projects on Glitch.com
• Botwiki catalog of useful, artistic online bots, tools an d tutorials
• Dan Shiffman Twitterbot tutorials with Twitter API and P5JS

Book reading list

• McCorduck, Pamela (2004), Machines Who Think (2nd ed.), Natick, MA: A. K. Peters, Ltd., ISBN 1-56881-205-1
• Weizenbaum, Joseph (1976), Computer power and human reason: from judgment to calculation, W. H. Freeman and Company, ISBN 0-7167-0463-3
• Whitby, Blay (1996), “The Turing Test: AI’s Biggest Blind Alley?”, in Millican, Peter; Clark, Andy, Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, 1, Oxford University Press, pp. 53–62, ISBN 0-19-823876-2
• Norvig, Peter. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. (San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992), 151-154, 159, 163-169, 175, 181. ISBN 1-55860-191-0.
• Wardip-Fruin, Noah. Expressing Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies. (Cumberland: MIT Press, 2014), 24-36. ISBN 9780262517539.