Ethics Isn’t a Footnote: Teaching NLP Responsibility the Hard Way
Opening — Why this matters now Ethics in AI is having a moment. Codes of conduct, bias statements, safety benchmarks, model cards—our industry has never been more concerned with responsibility. And yet, most AI education still treats ethics like an appendix: theoretically important, practically optional. This paper makes an uncomfortable point: you cannot teach ethical NLP by lecturing about it. Responsibility is not absorbed through slides. It has to be practiced. ...