Ethical Authorship and Moral Motivation: The Key to Ethical AI Use

This article argues that ethical authorship is essential for the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI). It examines tensions that historical understandings of authorship have created as instructors and students alike navigate AI technologies. Given these tensions, this article proposes a definition of “ethical authorship” and uses de Colle and Werhane’s moral motivation framework to outline how instructors can use ethical authorship and moral motivation to encourage students’ ethical AI use.