THE ETHICAL RISKS POSED BY NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN RESEARCH

Abstract

While we have made progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for decades, in the past couple of years we have seen that more and more applications of it have left the confines of laboratories and specialists and gained a place in our day to day lives, with countless implications being constantly explored, more recently, especially in the wake of the explosion of Large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT in November 2022. The purpose of our article is that of exploring what are the ethical risks posed by the deployment of such new technologies in education, with a specific focus on research. We will first begin with a brief overview of how AI is used in these fields. Secondly, we will analyze the normative framework for these new technologies highlighting why the dual-use dilemmas framework might be appropriate. Our paper will end with a series of recommendations regarding how the future of research will be shaped by these new technologies and their integration in our dayto-day academic life.