Purpose
Understanding the ethical use of AI and being able to reflect upon and critically assess the appropriateness of AI in different contexts is a critical skill for business leaders. Businesses that fail to use AI ethically or fail to use ethical AI systems are at risk of a range of consequences. These include breaches of law (e.g., privacy, discrimination), industry regulation, and good governance principles. This also means that organisations are at risk of losing their social licence to operate.
In this reflective essay you will consider these issues with reference to your own perspectives. The form of reflective essay has been chosen because the best business leaders learn from experience and exposure to new ideas, information and evidence, and they exhibit self-awareness of the inputs that shape their worldviews and perspectives. This reflective essay will help you build these reflective capabilities, whilst also assessing your knowledge, analytical ability and communication skills.
Task Requirements
You should take one of the key readings listed below and write a 1,200-word reflection on your views on the use of generative AI in a business context. You should reflect on your views as to what considerations should frame the use of AI in a business context, whether these considerations apply to all businesses equally or vary by industry, and who you believe ought to be responsible for preventing adverse consequences arising – AI developers, government, CEO’s, end users, or someone else? In setting out these views you should consider how the article/s you have read has changed your thinking. Perhaps you hadn’t thought about the issue much or perhaps you were strongly in favour of the use of generative AI in all contexts, but having read the article, you now have different views. Perhaps the article has not changed your views at all.
Whatever change has or hasn’t occurred, any claims that you make need to be supported by evidence (the reading itself, your learning process or materials/discussions you have been exposed to throughout the unit, or your own experiences) and clear reasoning. You can also draw on other material and learnings you’ve been exposed to throughout the unit when explaining your reasoning or the inputs that have shaped your thinking beyond the article you read. Drawing on the guidance provided for reflective essay writing and published here, you should be sure to think about:
● what people have said
● what you have read
● what you yourself are thinking
● how your thinking has changed.
REFLECTION READINGS:
Choose one of the “Key Readings” listed below for this reflective assignment. Copies of the ‘Key Readings’ are provided separately with this Guide.
You can also draw on the related reading if you wish. Make sure you specify clearly in your assignment, which reading you chose.
Option 1) Breaking Guardrails A
Key Reading:
Ray, Tiernan. (23/11/2023). Generative AI can easily be made malicious despite guardrails, say scholars, Znet.
Option 2) Breaking Guardrails B
Key Reading:
Roose, Kevin. (17/2/2023) “A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled” New York Times.
Option 3) Extracting Training Data
Key Reading:
Nasr, M. et al (28/11/2023) “Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT” not-just-memorization.github.io
Task Rules
WEIGHTING: 40%
WORD COUNT: • Strictly 1,200 words (+/-10%).
• Everything except your cover sheet, table of contents and your bibliography counts towards the word count.
• Any report outside of this word limit will be penalised.
• Your document should include a word count on the title page.
• You must use at least 8 academic journal articles in writing the essay
CONDITIONS FOR USING GENERATIVE AI:
Generative AI tools are not restricted for this assessment task.
In this assessment, you can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in any way. Any use of generative AI must be appropriately acknowledged.
Each submission must be accompanied by a declaration as follows:
I acknowledge the use of [insert AI system(s) and link] to [specific use of generative artificial intelligence]. The prompts used include [list of prompts]. The output from these prompts was used to [explain use].
or alternatively:
No content generated by AI technologies has been used in this assessment.
• You should ensure your declaration aligns with the guidance provided here
• Further, where you use the ideas, wording or content of Generative AI in your essay, you must also reference this material, just like you would with an article or book. Major publishing and referencing styles have provide guidance for how to cite AI in different circumstances. The guidance provided by the Chicago Manual of Style is very clear (see here). This sets out that if you use a browser extension such as ShareGPT or A.I. Archives to make your conversations with ChatGPT publicly available, then you can treat the citation as a website. If you do not use these tools, then you need to cite ChatGPT as you would “a conversation like an email, phone, or text conversation—or any other type of personal communication.”
•When you are citing ChatGPT, you should make clear what prompt was provided, as follows:
Format:
• “Description of chat” prompt. Name of AI tool, version of AI tool, Company, Date of chat, URL.
Example:
“Examples of harm reduction initiatives” prompt. ChatGPT, 23 Mar. version, OpenAI, 4 Mar. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.
In-Text Citation Example:
(“Examples of harm reduction”)
• Although you are permitted to use generative AI in this assessment, you should also consider the merits of using a generative AI system to generate content about its own ethical governance! You might find it is more beneficial to compare and contrast the output generative AI gives you (making sure you cite this output in your paper in line with academic conventions and ensure it is reflected in your AI declaration!), with your own, or others views on what is ethical and appropriate, or to consider how the outputs provided by generative AI have shaped your thinking.
• Students who fail to provide an AI declaration with their submission, will be given a score of zero for this assessment. Those who are found to have used AI but declare they have not used it will have an academic integrity case raised against them.
FORMAT/LAYOUT:
Use the APA 7 citation style to reference any source material.
3 readings are attached below. please choose 1 of the readings below.
Please follow the APA 7th citation style.
