IAFOR is excited to announce that The Forum will return to Hawaii, continuing its intellectual journey from where it left off in our Barcelona, Kyoto, and Tokyo conference programmes. The Forum is a plenary session designed as a platform for international, intercultural, interdisciplinary – and inclusive – discussions, joining experts and practitioners alike in an open dialogue format.
Come share your thoughts and experiences as global educators and researchers with other international experts through interdisciplinary discussions designed to engage with on-the-cusp issues. Through this activity, you will be able to contribute to an academic and political debate that potentially holds the key to more peace and harmony among countries and within societies, which has been troubling policy-makers for decades due to its complex nature.
Venue: Carnation Room, Ala Moana Hotel (2F), Honolulu, Hawaii
What to bring: A smartphone for participation activities
All onsite delegates are encouraged to attend The Forum.
The Forum’s Topic in Honolulu
AI in Academia: Ethics, Challenges, and Solutions
With regards to Academic Research, AI provides promise while simultaneously causing concern. AI might be used in research to assist with the writing process, organise literature searches, analyse data, generate graphs and figures, and even consider solutions. Overall, AI’s potential for strengthening research and dissemination is great. However, stories of plagiarism, a lack of critical thinking, and intellectual dishonesty also highlight significant pitfalls in its use in academia. Discussions surrounding ethics and how they might guide AI usage would prove useful in identifying potential solutions.
What to Expect at The Forum
This forum session will focus on introducing ethics currently identified in specific cases and highlighting select AI usages for academic research. Participants are invited to share their insights on AI ethics, uses, challenges, and solutions:
- If AI use in academic research is here to stay, how can we positively approach its inevitable integration?
- What do we value most?
- How do we promote the ethics we identify in this session?
- How do we model use at all levels of academic research?
- In short, how can we begin to control the AI narrative?
With delegates representing various disciplines within education, the arts, and the humanities at this conference, the discussion aims to model constructive interdisciplinary dialogue by example.