By Dr. Eric Wang
04/18/2023 – Built In
One of the ways generative AI is like those big, transformative leaps is the ethical considerations and questions this technology compels us all to ask and answer. Technology innovations in our lifetime alone have made us consider issues such as frayed human connections, easy access to negative products and influences, misinformation, threats to personal data and personal privacy and an accelerating immediacy culture, to name just a few. We are already seeing, and starting to discuss, the big social and moral questions surrounding generative AI.
Because I work for a company that works in education and with educators, I know that’s where some of these most difficult and confounding questions exist. I also think that, because education is a sort of functioning human laboratory, the AI-related questions that start in education are some of the best predictors for what will happen elsewhere. Here are a few ethical or deep questions AI is already requiring us to ask and answer in education….Read about the four ethical questions generative AI poses.