Generative AI, ethics, and language learning

Blair Matthews

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-51447-0_94-1

Generative AI, ethics, and language learning

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The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), such as ChatGPT and Deep-L, has been met with a mix of enthusiasm, scepticism, and curiosity, yet its impacts on language education have been deep and sudden. The evidence of its effectiveness has yet to be established, and there are concerns about its wide adoption. In particular, it is the potential for GenAI to produce unreliable, untrustworthy, or harmful content. In this entry, we present some of the ethical issues that have arisen by the sudden uptake of GenAI by language learners.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave encyclopedia of computer-assisted language learning
Publisher	Palgrave
Pages	1-5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-51447-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51447-0_94-1
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 Jul 2025

Keywords

Generative AI
Deep-L
Ethics
Large language models
Language learning
ChatGPT

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