Higher education is uniquely positioned to deal with AI’s ethical considerations, partly because AI adoption is already prevalent in academia. At Miami University in Ohio, “there are courses about AI, and there are courses that use AI,” says Vice President for IT Services and CIO David Seidl. As AI use widens, colleges and universities need to give students “an ethical foundation, a conceptual foundation to prepare them for the future,” he says. Many schools have the institutional expertise on campus needed to lay that foundation. “We have people who are very thoughtful, who bring subject matter expertise from a lot of lenses, so that you can have well-informed conversations about the ethics of AI,” says Tom Andriola, University of California, Irvine’s vice chancellor for IT and data.
