The Limitations of Ethical Principles for Educational AI and Their Remedies—A Discussion on the"Principle-Virtue-Law"Framework
The"principled approach"to ethical research in educational artificial intelligence aims to construct and teach ethical principles to mitigate the ethical risks associated with the application of AI technology in education.However,current ethical principles for educational AI are limited,which constrains their impact on educational practices.Specifically,in constructing these principles,individual characteristics or relationships within different industry sectors,educational applications,and even within the same framework have been overlooked.Moreover,these principles themselves lack the ability to influence the willingness of the target objects to put them into practice,and there is a lack of mechanisms that can effectively enforce compliance with these values and norms.Ethics,virtues,and laws together constitute the ethical foundation of artificial intelligence.To overcome the limitations of ethical principles for educational AI,it is necessary to introduce virtues and laws and construct a"principle-virtue-law"framework.The key to this framework is to address all aspects of the limitations of ethical principles by developing reliable and viable ethical principles,conducting clear and feasible virtue cultivation and building robust and effective legal safeguards.