Truthful, Wise, and Responsible

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering dental education, and recent reviews report both its benefits and recurring concerns about factual inaccuracy, academic integrity, over-reliance, bias, and privacy. Existing responses are largely technical and regulatory; they specify what should be done but say little about the character of the educators and students who use AI. This critical integrative review proposes a Christian virtue framework, grounded in the doctrine of the imago Dei, to guide dental educators and students. Empirical literature on AI in dental and health-professions education was read alongside Catholic and evangelical documents on AI and Christian scholarship on education and personhood. Five virtues, identified from Christian virtue-ethics literature on AI, were mapped to the main AI issues: truthfulness (hallucinated content and academic integrity), practical wisdom (automation bias, overconfidence, and deskilling), responsibility (accountability for AI-supported decisions), justice (bias and unequal access), and love (empathy, the clinician–patient relationship, and privacy). For each virtue, implications for educators and students are outlined. The framework suggests that responsible AI use in dental education is a matter not only of policy but also of formation, and it offers Christian dental schools a basis for curricula and institutional guidance.