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Stephen Downes

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According to this article, "Responsible AI integration in higher education requires striking a balance between riding the wave of AI advancements and upholding ethical principles." I don't think the idea of a 'balance' is at all the right way to think of this. Ethics and AI aren't some sort of opposites you have to 'balance'. And 'balance' itself is not a viable ethical principle; I can think of many things I would not like to 'balance' with something else. This higher level criticism also applies to many of the individual points. For example, the very first suggestion is to "create generative AI training materials to support faculty, staff, and students aimed toward combatting the digital divide." Clearly, an effort to 'balance' is being made here. But the balance here makes no sense; how exactly are these 'generative AI training materials' supposed to 'combat the divital divide'?

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