Toward Ethical AIED

TL;DR

This paper summarizes key ethical considerations and challenges in AI in Education (AIED), emphasizing diverse perspectives and the importance of ethical practices for responsible deployment of AI in educational contexts.

Contribution

It provides an overview of ethical issues in AIED and discusses grand challenges and key questions for advancing ethical practices in the field.

Findings

Identification of core ethical issues in AIED

Discussion of diverse perspectives on AI ethics

Highlighting grand challenges for ethical AI deployment in education

Abstract

This paper presents the key conclusions to the forthcoming edited book on The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Practices, Challenges and Debates (August 2022, Routlege). As well as highlighting the key contributions to the book, it discusses the key questions and the grand challenges for the field of AI in Education (AIED)in the context of ethics and ethical practices within the field. The book itself presents diverse perspectives from outside and from within the AIED as a way of achieving a broad perspective in the key ethical issues for AIED and a deep understanding of work conducted to date by the AIED community.