Tag: AI ethics
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Teaching AI Ethics: New Book and Website
Today I’m launching two things: a new Open Access eBook and a dedicated website for the Teaching AI Ethics project. Read more on the blog.
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Teaching AI Ethics 2026: Power
The final article in the updated ‘Teaching AI Ethics’ series explores how AI consolidates power in the hands of the wealthiest, most powerful companies in the world.
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Teaching AI Ethics 2026: Emotions and Social Chatbots
The article updates prior discussions on AI ethics, shifting focus from the challenges of emotion recognition to the manipulation of human emotions by AI systems, particularly social chatbots. It highlights the risks posed to young users, detailing manipulative tactics used by platforms and regulatory responses aimed at safeguarding mental health.
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Teaching AI Ethics: Data 2025
This is an updated post in the series exploring AI ethics, building on the original 2023 discussion of data and “datafication”. This post explores why and how GenAI relies on so much data collection, how AI companies are gathering the information, and what it means for education.
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Teaching AI Ethics: Privacy 2025
This is an updated post in the series exploring AI ethics, building on the original 2023 discussion of privacy concerns. As generative AI has become embedded in our daily digital lives from chatbots to smart glasses the privacy implications have grown more complex and immediate. This post explores how GenAI has transformed privacy risks and…
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Teaching AI Ethics: Copyright 2025
This is an updated post in the Teaching AI Ethics series, originally published in 2023. Given the explosive developments in AI and copyright over the past two years – including major court cases, government decisions, and the first billion-dollar settlements – it felt essential to revisit this intermediate-level ethical concern. For the previous updated post…
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Ethics, assessment, and the (near) future of Generative AI
This post provides an update on the AISNSW ICT Management and Leadership conference, including discussions and presentations on various topics related to technology in education. Day one focused on AI ethics and its implications, day two on AI in assessments, and day three featured a closing keynote on the future of generative AI. The post…
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Making meaning with multimodal GenAI
As much as Generative Artificial intelligence has caused waves in education, the focus in research and publications on the impact of GenAI is still squarely on text-based models and in particular ChatGPT. That’s understandable considering the impact OpenAI’s chatbot had almost immediately from its launch November 2022. But by focusing attention on large language models…
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Some technologies are created with values, others have values thrust upon them
Back in 2023, I wrote an extensive series of articles called Teaching AI Ethics in which I explored nine areas of ethical concerns with artificial intelligence. In those early articles, I argued that it is absolutely necessary to wrestle with the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence, particularly as generative applications such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot,…
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AI Detection in Education is a Dead End
When you live in a research/social media bubble like I do, it’s easy to take certain things for granted. For example, I always overestimate the number of people who are using generative AI regularly in their day to day work. The reality, as of April 2024, is the majority of people within and outside of…