Lectures and seminars Bites of Learning 30/10: Cultivating a culture of integrity as a means to avoid the Impact of AI technologies on education
As AI transforms education, the challenge is integrating it without sacrificing integrity. Join Dr. Karabo Maiyane in this Bites of Learning session to explore how fostering honesty and transparency can empower students to engage with AI responsibly, creating a more authentic learning environment.
For some time now, institutions of higher learning have been scrambling to find means of safely integrating artificial intelligence tools in teaching and learning activities while avoiding the adverse challenges associated with them, such as plagiarism. Most have come up with guidelines on how to use these tools, are reviewing their policies and have invested greatly in plagiarism-tracking tools. While these interventions provide the needed support to protect the integrity of the institutions and their qualifications, they do not deal with the root causes of the problem, which I argue is integrity.
In this presentation, I explore the implications of AI technologies on academic integrity. Specifically, I want to highlight that although AI technologies may negatively impact academic integrity, the users of these technologies are mostly the transgressors. As such, instead of investing in means of detecting transgressions, we should cultivate virtues of honesty and transparency among ourselves and our students. In doing so, we will have students who are well-equipped to deal with new technologies without us needing to police their actions.
This session will be held in English
Karabo Maiyane
Guest speakerKarabo Maiyane is a lecturer and acting head of the Department of Philosophy at Nelson Mandela University. His teaching expertise includes moral and political philosophy as well as the history of philosophy. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pretoria, specialising in the ethics of Artificial intelligence.
His research interests include the impact of AI technologies on human dignity in the context of healthcare, warfare and social robotics. His other interests include the ethics of technology, just war theory, ethics of care, healthcare ethics and African ethics in general. Among his publications are Robots and Dignity: An Afro-communitarian Argument in Eldercare; AI in HE: ‘The end game must be a more equitable society and Autonomous Weapons and the Future of Warfare in Africa.