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Stephen Downes

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There's the overt messaging in this article and then there's the more interesting subtext. The overt messaging is that the authors created an AI avatar to present content in a business ethics course and then asked studets what they thought. It being business ethics, students were unsurprisingly find with it. The subtext was based around the idea that course authors and institutions are already using a lot of AI in course design and delivery, but that it's hidden behind the scenes, and that the use of an AI avatar makes it overtly clear that the course in managed in large part by an AI. So - in such a case - is it more ethical to use the AI? It's not exactly what the authors were studying, but it does come up as a topic of discussion.

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