Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education

Rethinking Teaching and Learning

Statement 07 of 30

Students must learn with GenAI before they can question it.

Why this matters

Ethical understanding grows through experience, not avoidance. Ethical literacy is not born of walls, but of windows. By engaging with generative tools, students come to recognise their capacities, limits, and biases. To know GenAI is to stand beside it critically, not compliantly.

A question for reflection

What experiences would help your students develop a critical stance toward GenAI rather than a compliant one?

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Farrell, H. & McCarthy, K. (2025). Statement 07: "Students must learn with GenAI before they can question it." Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education. GenAI:N3. https://manifesto.genain3.ie/07/