Control-group students framed sustainability as an external obligation and held techno-optimistic views of AI centered on efficiency with little ethical reflection¶

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q2 i? Most control-group students expressed general support for sustainability but framed it as an external obligation of government and companies, and articulated techno-optimistic AI views with little spontaneous reflection on ethical risks such as algorithmic bias or job displacement. → Feng Liu 2026

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Feng Liu 2026¶

Feng Liu, Hua Wang, Yuntao Guo, Tianpei Tang. (2026). Enhancing Sustainability Consciousness in Higher Education: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence-Integrated Sustainable Engineering Education. Sustainability 18, 2124. https://doi.org/10.3390/su18042124

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Results section on sustainability attitudes (control group n=70). Students typically located responsibility with government and companies; even volunteers rarely connected future professional roles to social responsibility, reflecting what the article calls a predominantly utilitarian orientation.

"Regarding AI, many students articulated techno-optimistic views centered on efficiency, with relatively little spontaneous reflection on ethical risks. While they anticipated efficiency gains from intelligent systems, they rarely questioned risks such as algorithmic bias or job displacement."

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