Ateneo professor to attend AI Conference in Bangkok

Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo de Davao University will present a Policy Paper on AI and Education in the 23rd Asian Bioethics Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, 25-29 March 2025. The theme of the event is "Social, Legal and Ethical Issues of Artificial intelligence." The conference is hosted by the Asian Bioethics Association, the Eubios Ethics Institute, and Chulalongkorn University. Bioethics and AI experts across the globe will attend the 5-day event.

Dr. Maboloc will discuss the influence, effects, and impact of ChatGPT on learning. His research examines several Higher Education AI Policies in the country. The funding for this engagement was provided by Ateneo de Davao University and the City Government of Davao where he serves as a consultant. Dr. Rogelio Bayod of North Valley College as well as Fr. Dexter Veloso of the Saint Francis Xavier College Seminary are likewise scheduled to present their respective papers.

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Statement of the SES expressing its opposition to the proposal to remove Ethics in the GE Curriculum

We, members of the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society, express our strong opposition to the proposal to remove ethics in college. Such move is bereft of merit and is ignorant as to the value and purpose of the teaching of the course, which is thoroughly rooted in the integral and critical function of higher education. The proposal to transfer it to Senior High School deprives college students of the teaching of ethics as a professional course, which is crucial in their civic engagements and the pursuit of a democratic society that can only be grounded in responsible citizenship and critical thinking. The direction of Edcom and its advisers from the technical panels of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) reduces our whole education system into a mode of creating docile workers who will constitute the labor force that will serve the whims and interests of a capital intensive and consumer driven globalized neoliberal economic order. It only breeds our subser...

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