Dr Abdulaziz Ajeel Al Nashmi
Assistant Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence
and Islamic Studies, Kuwait International Law School

Abstract:

This study addresses the ethics of employing artificial intelligence among law school students. It aims to identify artificial intelligence, define its ethics, discuss the European Charter on Artificial Intelligence and compare it to Islamic ethics, and examine students’ employment of artificial intelligence and its ethics. In this study, the researcher followed the inductive, comparative, and critical approaches. The study was divided into three sections: The first section addressed the definition of artificial intelligence, its characteristics, and advantages. The second section, on the ethics of artificial intelligence, discussed the reasons why writing about the ethics of artificial intelligence is important, and discussed trends in the ethical interpretation of the use of artificial intelligence applications. The second section then discussed the European Union’s guidelines for artificial intelligence, followed by the ethical foundations of artificial intelligence in Islam.
The third section dealt with the most important uses of artificial intelligence among law school students. The researcher touched on three uses: The first use: Students answering the professor’s questions on the legal subject, which is divided into two parts: The first: homework assignments that the professor asks of the students. The second part deals with legal exam questions. The second use: Students summarizing the legal books assigned to them. The discussion was divided into two parts: The first: the summary the student prepares for themselves to study from. The second part: the summary the student prepares as an assignment requested by the course instructor.
The third category comprises presentations which are divided into two parts: The first: Information gathering, meaning the student’s legal sources of information that he will present to the course instructor and other students. The second part: The formal design of the academic material to be presented, including images and other information. In each of these applications, the researcher presents the European Union guidelines that correspond to this application, compares them to the teachings of the Islamic religion, and then demonstrates the advantages of Islamic teachings over the European Union guidelines.
The study concludes that artificial intelligence is a machine’s attempt to imitate human intelligence, that all of humanity is attempting to establish teachings and guidelines for artificial intelligence, and that the European Union guidelines are consistent with the teachings of Islam. The teachings of Islam have a distinct moral character, encompassing the religious, metaphysical, and other worldly dimensions of the Islamic faith. The study recommended that universities quickly develop regulations to govern the use of artificial intelligence (AI). It also recommended that Arab countries and their universities race against time to develop AI, as Western AI is ahead of Arab AI.
Keywords: interactive learning, digital technologies, legal studies, generative intelligence, student development.

Read Full PDF Text (Arabic)