The Eight Essential Principles offer a human-centered framework for AI adoption in education, helping educators and institutions ensure that AI supports flourishing, relationships, creativity, accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality rather than reducing learning to efficiency, automation, or convenience.
CHAIRES and the Work of Being Human with AI
CHAIRES — the Center for Human–AI Research, Ethics, and Studies — explores how intelligence, in both human and artificial forms, reshapes culture, creativity, and responsibility. Through research, creative practice, education, and policy, CHAIRES studies what it means to live, think, and create in the presence of intelligent systems.
Gutierrez & Lethcoe’s AI Essentials in Education (AI-Ed): Responsible AI Literacy Course for a Human-Centered Future
Developed by Gutierrez & Lethcoe for Washington’s community and technical colleges, AI Essentials in Education (AI-Ed) is a statewide Canvas course that helps faculty and staff use AI tools responsibly through five modules on ethics, collaboration, and human-centered innovation.
The AEIOU Ethos: Five Principles for Responsible AI in Higher Education
Artificial intelligence is transforming higher education — but responsible innovation requires more than new tools. The AEIOU Ethos outlines five practical principles for designing and governing AI with accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality at its core.