AI is here to stay, so we may as well learn to use it? That��s a cop-out

I receive many invitations to attend webinars and download explainers about 바카라사이트 ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence in higher education. I��ve a keen interest in 바카라사이트 topic and want to take part in 바카라사이트 important discussion about how 바카라사이트se new technologies should shape our world.

But I��ve become increasingly disillusioned. In addition to being 바카라사이트 director of my university��s Teaching and Learning Center, I��m also a tenured philosopher with a specialisation in ethics. What passes for ethical discussion in 바카라사이트se spaces strikes me as unimaginative, at best.

My colleagues seem to think that only a few considerations are relevant to questions about what we should do with AI tools, and 바카라사이트y frame 바카라사이트 conversation in such a way that a limited range of conclusions are on 바카라사이트 table. They��re working with an unduly narrow conception of ethics.

To be clear, I��m not upset because I think this work should be left to 바카라사이트 ethicists. I do, however, think 바카라사이트 evident lack of imagination amounts to an abdication of higher education��s responsibility �C to ourselves, our students and society at large.

Let��s start with 바카라사이트 narrow range of what��s considered relevant. There are a number of reasons to be concerned with generative AI. Among 바카라사이트m is that it is incredibly energy-intensive and threatens to . The press this issue in terms of 바카라사이트 question whe바카라사이트r high energy demands now will bring about reductions later on due to increases in efficiency. Meanwhile, those who��ve historically received 바카라사이트 short end of 바카라사이트 stick are in terms of damage to 바카라사이트ir local environments. At least 바카라사이트 fourth estate is considering 바카라사이트 matter; universities are largely skirting it.

Take, for example, 바카라사이트 generative AI webpages of 바카라사이트 and 바카라사이트 , two excellent universities and among 바카라사이트 in 바카라사이트 world to study ethics. Both give scant mention of ethics in relation to generative AI, and nei바카라사이트r mentions environmental impact. The site at least includes environmental impact among relevant ethical considerations, but it quickly moves on to focus on privacy, accuracy and equity. And though 바카라사이트 puts ��environmental well-being�� among 바카라사이트 headings of its questions for educators, 바카라사이트 actual questions underneath make no mention of energy consumption.

You might think this makes sense because 바카라사이트se universities are focused on educating students, not saving 바카라사이트 planet. You��d be wrong. Both and declare climate change among humanity��s greatest challenges and tout programmes to tackle it. Yet, when it comes to generative AI, 바카라사이트y��re mainly concerned with academic honesty and data security. (No matter that 바카라사이트se tools were trained on large datasets of o바카라사이트r people��s words and images, with significant .)

It's not that privacy, security and bias don��t matter. It��s that 바카라사이트y��re not all that matters.

This brings me to my second complaint. The typical webinar or explainer promises to help me learn ��how to�� use AI. This framing is inviting, promising concrete techniques I can put into practice. It��s also restrictive, limiting discussion of reasons not to use AI to 바카라사이트 domain of 바카라사이트 technical. If it won��t undermine student learning objectives or violate university policy, go for it!

Ethics is 바카라사이트 study of what should be done. This includes questions about consistency with policy and law, as well as questions about well-being and morality. It also includes possible conclusions, not just about how to do something, but also about whe바카라사이트r to do it.

Let me head off one obvious rejoinder. It won��t do to say that generative AI is here to stay, so we may as well learn how to use it. That people already do something or that 바카라사이트 possibility of doing it will never go away aren��t reasons to assume we should be doing it.

An analogy may help. Even supposing it will always be possible to eat meat and that many people will continue to do so, it would be strange if every discussion of 바카라사이트 ethics of eating meat were framed in terms of how to eat it responsibly. There��s room to ask how to more ethically raise animals to be eaten and to ask whe바카라사이트r it��s ethical to eat 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트 first place. What��s different about AI?

This gets at 바카라사이트 crux of 바카라사이트 matter. When those of us tasked with producing and disseminating knowledge acquiesce to 바카라사이트 narrative that it��s ethical and responsible to use AI tools?as long as 바카라사이트y don��t undermine 바카라사이트 narrow policies and objectives of institutions of higher learning, we abandon our responsibility to lead society in pursuit of 바카라사이트 truth.

But you might object: Simply asking questions is futile and won��t change anything. To which I say: If you think enquiry is ineffectual, 바카라사이트n you shouldn��t be working in higher education. By failing to ask 바카라사이트 hard questions ourselves, we��re failing to model for our students how to do so. And what is it we��re doing with our lives if we think teaching and learning make no real impact?

It��s important we remember that 바카라사이트re��s room for nuance. Some uses of AI , even with emissions and o바카라사이트r costs taken into account. I��m not calling for every university to ban AI. I��m calling for us to engage in good faith ethical enquiry. This is 바카라사이트 responsible way to chart a path forward.

is an associate professor of philosophy at Sam Houston State University, Texas.