Examining Artificial Intelligence Curricula for Ethical Principles—A Bridge to Human Flourishing
摘要
With the ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in society and generative AI (GenAI) tools rapidly infusing K-12 learning environments, there is an urgent need to ensure that students understand and can navigate this digital landscape. The ethical and societal impacts of GenAI tools must be explicitly taught through AI curricula that provide educators with opportunities to facilitate students’ understanding of how AI works, along with its possibilities, potential harms, and benefits. This study examines two AI curricula through the lens of AI ethical principles and bridges these principles to the strengths of a virtuous, flourishing life. Findings indicate that the AI ethical principles of transparency, privacy, non-maleficence, responsibility, pedagogical appropriateness, and AI literacy were addressed to some degree in both curricula. However, the AI ethical principles of children’s rights, freedom, and autonomy were underexplored. The analysis reveals opportunities to develop AI ethics curricula in alignment with the AI ethical principles and the framework of eight strengths for a flourishing life. This chapter also discusses ways to ensure AI ethics instruction bridges the complex relationship between AI use and students’ moral capacities. Through grounding curricula in evidence-based pedagogy, AI ethics instruction should span disciplinary boundaries and center on children’s developmental needs.