aceNegotiating Ethical Coexistence with AI: A Grounded Theory of Japanese Students’ Conditional Trust, Agency, and the Development of Critical AI Literacy
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly reshaping how students learn, reason, and create, raising pressing questions about agency, trust, and moral responsibility. While information systems (IS) research has emphasized organizational governance and design ethics, less is known about how students develop ethical awareness in everyday AI use. This study applies a systematic grounded theory lens to a mixed-format survey of 69 Japanese university students. We develop a process model of how student…
Japanese university students using GenAI develop conditional trust and reflexive evaluation through an ongoing process of moral calibration.
Japanese university students using GenAI experience ethical anxiety and heightened awareness of power and risk that complicates agency and moral responsibility.
Findings are based on a small, culturally specific sample of 69 Japanese university students using a mixed-format survey and grounded theory, limiting generalizability beyond that population and method.
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- Peer-reviewedJournal of the Association for Information Systems2026-07-05
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