Sogomonov A.Yu. Artificial Intelligence in University education as an ethico-applied problem. Sentenial of Applied Ethics. 2024. No. 2(64). Pp. 82-97.

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is permanently and profoundly interfering into higher education space, rapidly forming new ethical contexts and dilemmas. The beginning of 2024 was marked by the emergence of the first international declarations on AI, regulating the activities of producers and consumers (in UN & EU). They deal mostly with legal aspects and digital politics, fully ignoring the ethical issues. Meanwhile risks and threats, that were introduced by AI intrusion into education, could crucially damage not only the very process of education, but also its institutional forms. That’s why many experts evaluate the risks as existential. The primal thesis that the sources of sustainable development of universities lie less in the technological sphere or digital politics, but rather in the field of practical ethics is argued in the article. Moving towards the new era of human-AI collaboration, we urgently need the fundamental metanoia. The universities should reassess their programmes, standards, disciplinary and control practices, etc. And, perhaps, even to reshape their institutional status. The new higher education philosophy instantly recommends to the leading universities to give start to innovations after passing through several mental and cultural itineraries, that could facilitate the painful overcoming of the basic barriers, that prevent them from entering the period of transformation on the way to the new “technohumanistic” era.