The College of Education Ibn Rushd for Human Sciences at the University of Baghdad discussed a master’s thesis entitled “A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ethical Linguistic Structures in Excerpts of English Artificial Intelligence”, submitted by the researcher from the Department of Arabic Language, Barakat Naeem Alakm, specializing in Language. The discussion committee was chaired by Professor Dr. Manal Jasim Muhammad, with Professor Dr. Abdul Karim Fadel Jamil serving as supervisor and member, and Assistant Professor Dr. Majid Rasim Younis as a member, in addition to Assistant Professor Dr. Ahmed Sultan Hussein joining as an external member from the College of Arts, Al-Mustansiriya University.
The study aimed to elucidate the mechanisms of representing core ethical values such as justice, transparency, and accountability within AI outputs, highlighting structural biases embedded in lexical weights, condensed grammatical structures, stylistic biases, and formations of affective discourse. Methodologically, the study relies on strategies of power and discourse dominance analysis within the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework and seeks to deconstruct ideological encoding through Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive perspective. Moreover, computational analysis tools contribute to revealing patterns of lexical co-occurrence and trends in affective evaluation within the CADA approach.
