AI and ethics: Investigating the first policy responses of higher education institutions to the challenge of generative AI

Abstract This article addresses the ethical challenges posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in higher education and explores the first responses of universities to these challenges globally. Drawing on five key international documents from the UN, EU, and OECD, the study used content analysis to identify key ethical dimensions related to the use of generative AI in academia, such as accountability, human oversight, transparency, or inclusiveness. Empirical evidence was compiled from 30 leading universities ranked among the top 500 in the Shanghai Ranking list from May to July 2023, covering those institutions that already had publicly available responses to these dimensions in the form of…

• UO
  University of Delaware
• BC
  Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem
• UO
  University of Hong Kong
• CU
  Chinese University of Hong Kong
• TU
  Technische Universität Berlin