Moral Agency in the Age of AI: A Meta-Ethical Framework for Educative Leadership

This article examines the ethical responsibilities of educative leaders in an era of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI).While AI offers new opportunities for personalized and adaptive learning, recent research has raised critical concerns about its potential to erode critical thinking, exacerbate educational inequalities, and commodify educational processes.The article employs a four-dimensional meta-ethical framework-pragmatic holism, relational ethics, virtue ethics, and critical theory-as a basis for ethical leadership in AI integration.Through analysis of early case studies and media investigations, it explores how AI governance might safeguard human agency, intellectual virtues, and democratic purposes in education.The article argues that educative leadership is pivotal to ensuring that AI in education remains aligned with public values, moral integrity, and the flourishing of learners and democratic society.