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Accepted Contribution:
Short abstract:
Stakeholders struggle to take full responsibility for the thical, Legal and Social Aspects of AI in Education. We explore ‘guidance ethics’ as a socio-technological ethical method to address this dilemma. This postphenomenological approach places a strong emphasis on stakeholder participation.
Long abstract:
Stakeholders are increasingly held accountable for ‘responsible’ AI in Education (AIED) (Dignum, 2021). This foremost means incorporating Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (Fisher et al, 2006), but also addressing structural challenges such as platformisation (Poell, Nieborg, and Dijck, 2019) and the growing dominance of (big) tech (Sharon & Gellert, 2023; Kerssens & Van Dijck, 2021). However, stakeholders often lack the capabilities to evaluate and anticipate ELSA. One of the challenges here is the control dilemma: incorporating ELSA is easy when these aspects are not yet manifest, yet once we know them, they are difficult to change (Collingdridge, 1980).
We explore a socio-technological ethical method called ‘guidance ethics’ (Verbeek & Tijink, 2019) as an approach to address this dilemma. This postphenomenological approach places a strong emphasis on stakeholder participation.
Our research question is: ‘how can stakeholder participation based on guidance ethics contribute to responsible AIED?’ We collected data from five workshops in schools for secondary education in Flanders and two meetings of the Independent Advisory Board Smartschool .
Our results reveal discrepancies between expected effects of AIED as well as different perspectives on how to mitigate these. The efficiency gains for example (based on which technology often is purchased) were countered by many stakeholders. This information increases the understanding of the dynamic human-technology entanglements and improves the capabilities to incorporate ELSA. The method however often leaves us with the question ‘and now’? We link this question to one of our other findings: the struggle of stakeholders to take responsibility for ELSA.
Playing with AI: Creative Approaches to Engage the Public into Responsible AI Innovation
Session 1 Wednesday 17 July, 2024, -