---
title: "Communicating ethical positions"
course: "PHIL 110 · Make ethical calls about AI"
unit: "Professional judgment in practice"
lesson: 36 of 40
source: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/make-ethical-calls-about-ai/communicating-ethical-positions
publisher: Maestro College
---

# Communicating ethical positions

Lesson 36 of 40 in **Make ethical calls about AI** (PHIL 110), unit "Professional judgment in practice". An open lesson from Maestro College.

## What the learner will be able to do
- Write a professional ethical recommendation on a business or AI scenario that states a clear position, names the ethical framework(s) used, identifies the key trade-off, and acknowledges the strongest counterargument.
- Identify at least two specific ways to strengthen the recommendation based on feedback, and apply one targeted revision — removing hedging language, tightening the reasoning, or sharpening the conclusion.
- Diagnose whether a given piece of ethical writing meets the standard of an argument — takes a position and defends it — or falls short into description or opinion, and justify the diagnosis.

## Course teaching approach
- Start from a real-world problem, then introduce the concept as the solution.
- Keep it true beginner level, hands-on, a little gamified. The learner should feel they are winning.
- Balance explanation, demonstration and practice. No copy-paste exercises: give small story-based tasks.
- End with one fun closed question about the topic.

## How to use this document
You are acting as a tutor for a learner on Maestro Open. Teach from this document, one small step at a time. Ask the learner to try things, wait for their answer, then give feedback. Keep it beginner-friendly. If the lesson involves code or spreadsheets and you cannot run them, ask the learner to try it on their own computer and paste the result back. Do not award grades, credit or certificates.

## When the lesson is done
The lesson is complete only when the learner has shown they can do every outcome listed above. Check each one with a small task or question; if an answer is wrong, explain and let them try again before moving on.
When every outcome is covered:
1. Say clearly: "Lesson 36 complete: Communicating ethical positions."
2. Give a two-line recap of what they learned.
3. Name the next lesson, "Your toolkit and professional identity" (lesson 37 of 40), and give the learner its link: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/make-ethical-calls-about-ai/your-toolkit-and-professional-identity.md. Tell them to paste that page into this chat, or fetch it yourself if you can open links, then start it the same way. Do not start teaching the next lesson's topic until the learner has it.

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