Many of us utilize AI daily in our higher education work, yet we may not have assessed the ethical and human-centered nature of the tool we have selected and trained through our prompts. AI tools are no longer a relatively simple search engine that is driven by marketing metrics to help us conduct our research. Rather, with AI we are using more sophisticated tools that conduct research and seek answers to our prompting while making source-selection decisions, contextual settings and semantic subtleties that impact the values expressed in the results. Before we look at the default values and orientations inherent in some of the leading AI models, let me remind you that in crafting your prompt, you can encourage the tool to put an emphasis on generating responses that include orientations and perspectives that address ethical considerations. Your prompt can direct the model to provide results that explore, highlight or emphasize pro-social or human-centered solutions and examples.
