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Stephen Downes

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The research here suggests that educators are not aware of 'ethical rules' governing the use of AI, and might not follow them even if they did. They are, however, mindful of the consequences that might follow as a result of violating them. The authors thus argue for more education about AI ethics, and more attention in the drafting of these ethics to ensure they are relevant to the people intended to follow them. To me all this points to the fact that we don't really have an establish 'ethics' of AI yet (despite numerous expect groups proclaiming to have found them). I don't think you get a new technology and suddenly an established body of ethics around it the next day. P.S. the 'lens' of Activity Theory brings nothing to this discussion, in my view, and I see its invocation here as nothing more than an offering of a sacrifice to the machine.

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