Ethical Questions to Ask


Even when we are looking forward to the various benefits of AI based tools in education and elsewhere, we must not forget that there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how we should treat these applications and the results they provide.

There are various ethical questions to be asked about when and how to use it, who should be using it and what results we are expecting from them.

Elena Zeide was already raising these concerns and questions in 2019 in her article Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Applications,Promise and Perils, and Ethical Questions published in the Educause Review and they are more relevant today than ever.

The full article is available at https://er.educause.edu/articles/2019/8/artificial-intelligence-in-higher-education-applications-promise-and-perils-and-ethical-questions 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The AI Dilemma

Image
  The above video is a (more than an hour long) presentation on the AI Dilemma, in which Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss questions like how the currently existing and available AI tools could pose “catastrophic risks to a functional society”. While it has a rather negative tone about AI, it is definitely worth watching to help you think about not only the positives these new tools have to offer but also the question marks about their impact.
Read more

How to Handle AI in Schools

Image
  Christine Elgersma summarizes what educators can and shoulddo in their classrooms when it comes to the use of AI.  Of course, the current concerns of educators are valid. We need to discuss questions of plagiarism, ethics, and issues of biases and misinformation. Elgersma doesn’t just ask the questions but also offers some ideas on how to start the conversation about them. Have you run into any of these problems in your classroom or institute? Read the article here: https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/chatgpt-and-beyond-how-to-handle-ai-in-schools  
Read more

Using a Chatbot in Post-secondary Composition Instruction

Image
   Lin and Chang offer a study about developing and using a chatbot in post-secondary composition instruction in Canada, published in the Educational Technology & Society . What is most intriguing about it is that they published their article in 2020, two years before the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Obviously, their chatbot is nowhere near as developed as ChatGPT, but the study shows that the idea of chatbots, as well as incorporating them into education is not new. Ling and Chang used the chatbot to help them deliver writing instructions when teaching students how to develop a thesis statement for an argumentative essay. Their research results show that the majority of participating students had a positive learning experience, and gained new knowledge while using the bot. On the other hand the study was limited, and further research is required. The full article is available here: https://www.j-ets.net/collection/published-issues/23_1 and here: https://www.jstor.or...
Read more