Ethically Aware Learning in an AI-Enabled Classroom

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become a focal point of discussion surrounding the future of higher education since late 2022. Concerns about the use of the technology, such as academic integrity issues and students' overreliance, which limit their learning and development, are in tension with the need to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce, particularly for business students. This case study presents an example of how AI was intentionally integrated into an undergraduate leadership ethics course to better prepare students to confront ethical challenges they will face in their careers by engaging in a whole person learning approach and preparing them to become lifelong learners. Students engaged in various experiential learning activities and assessments that pushed them to think critically about how to use AI responsibly now and in their future careers. Students in the course perceived that unrestricted use of AI is not ethical and that students and educators all have a responsibility when it comes to how it is used in their education and future careers.