Just because AI does what you asked for, should you accept it? Encountering and handling ethical dilemmas when teaching with AI
Most educators use AI with the hope that it’ll complete our requests – but what if the output ends up being something we feel ethically conflicted about?
A student might prompt AI to generate a Disney character for a poster design task, and if the AI model agrees, should we ask the student to reject the output out of respect for copyright?
What if a student co-creates a short story with AI and the characters make ideologically extreme statements – should a teacher intervene and instruct the student to re-prompt to ‘tone it down’, or would that be an overreaction that undermines creative license?
And if, as an ever-busy teacher, we find ourselves generating entire mock papers that are as good as the official past papers, would using a ‘derivative work’ like this be tolerating IP ‘grey areas’?
While this session doesn’t seek to give clean-cut answers, the hope is that I’ll share my personal experiences, and through this surface very real ethical dilemmas that AI-fluent educators will increasingly face, offering an open space for us all to discuss how we have each dealt with similar situations.
Facilitated By
Jen Chan
Founder, CEO, Genesis Learning
Jen Chan is the Founder and CEO of Genesis Learning, an innovative education company with a mission to prepare students today for a future that’s already here. She believes in a pedagogy-first, human-at-the-center approach to integrating AI in the classroom and curriculum, with purposeful learning as the ultimate goal.
Genesis Learning’s mission is to equip K12 learners and educators with efficient, creative and responsible AI skills. The company delivers AI fluency academic learning programmes for 10-18 year-old students, AI-in-the-classroom and AI for curriculum development teaching training programmes for elementary and high school educators, as well as parent awareness talks on safe and ethical AI use for children.
Jen is a Google Gemini Certified Educator, ex-Big 4 digital transformation leader and tech community builder, and a YouTube educator with 2M+ views. She graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Degree in English Literature, and her research dissertation with Cambridge Judge Business School focused on the impact of generative AI on the global K-12 EdTech landscape.
