Short report on the SEFI Spring School 2024
The underlying question "Crocodile or Octopus?" was not properly answered during the SEFI Spring School 2024 on "Democracy in Engineering Education", from 10 to 12 April 2024 at TU Berlin.
Insights from SEFI 2024 Spring School
TU Berlin and SEFI’s special interest groups for Ethics and Sustainability teamed up to provide 55 educators a platform to explore democracy, ethics, and sustainability from April 10-12 at TU Berlin.
Call for participation in the 2024 SEFI Ethics Spring School
Do we need ethics or sustainability in engineering? How to decide on this question? SEFI Spring School 2024 is jointly organized by the two SEFI Special Interest Groups on Ethics and Sustainability.
Generative AI. Generating morality. Generating Engineering Ethics Education.
Dear reader, Fall 2023. What an exciting time to be in engineering education! Gunter Bombaerts and Diana A. Martin We all have been preaching our entire careers, be it months or decades, that engineering students should be scaffolded to develop…
Plausible Nonsense and Carbon Footprint: Micro and Macro Ethics of Generative AI in the Classroom
Cécile Hardebolle, EPFL, Switzerland A paradigm shift has occurred in the discourse around the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our livelihood over the past year 2022 due to the release of multiple Generative AI-tools i.e., tools that generate audio/visual/text-based…
Generative AI and the role of uncertainty in classroom assessment
Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech, USA Almost one year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT for public use. In the following months, other large organizations started releasing competitor large language models for text generation. To some observers, these technologies opened a Pandora’s box.…
AI and education for global justice
Vlasta Sikimić, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands The potential use of advanced digital tools in education extends over algorithmic grading, individualized feedback, attention measuring using eye-tracking and other tools, the use of virtual reality or augmented reality in classrooms, etc. Moreover,…
Benchmarking AI tools and assessing integrity: Assessment integrity in the AI age
Dr. Scott Daniel, University of Technology Sydney, Australia ChatGPT and other generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools are having a massive impact on many different aspects of society, causing alarm and excitement in equal measure. Its powerful creative abilities are challenging…
The choreography of virtues for living with AI
Constantin Vică, University of Bucharest, Romania Another text on Artificial Intelligence, another opinion about the quicksand of today's technological world. The saturation we have reached in this vast subject, although we have by no means exhausted the analysis of the…
How to counter the tech titans’ futuristic narratives about AI?
Maximilian Rossmann, Maastricht University, The Netherlands In the ever-evolving landscape of education and technology, the spotlight has recently been seized by innovations in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). One particular manifestation of AI, transformer-based models like GPT-3, has been…