Teaching AI ethics for translation students

A key part of teaching translation in the age of Generative AI (GenAI) is understanding when to use and when not to use GenAI. AI ethics is an applied subfield of Ethics that can help with decision-making, which may be useful to students after they graduate and as they move through their careers. In this chapter, we begin with some definitions of AI and ethics, introduce some ethical issues, along with some progress in addressing those issues. We finally consider some ways to introduce discussion and reflection in the classroom to maximise the impact of this teaching, focusing in particular on case studies and the use of mapping and images to understand our position within the complex interrelationships between individuals, organisations, and society regarding ethical issues pertaining to translation and GenAI.