A Plan for an ACM Task Force Working Group Into the Ethical and Societal Impacts of Generative AI in Higher Computing Education

Abstract

Generative AI (GenAI) presents societal and ethical challenges related to equity, academic integrity, bias, and data provenance. This working group will consider the ethical and societal impacts of GenAI in higher computing education. In this paper, we outline the goals, methodology and expected deliverables of the working group. In particular, we will carry out a systematic literature review to address a wide set of issues and topics covering the rapidly emerging technology of GenAI from the perspective of its ethical and social impacts, we will provide an evaluation of university policies on the adoption and guidelines for use of GenAI for computing education and develop a framework to outline the ethical and societal impacts of GenAI in computing education. This work synthesizes existing research and considers the implications for educational and professional codes of ethics.