Abstract
The study investigated the ethical usage of artificial intelligence among facilitators of adult education programmes in Cross River State, Nigeria. Three research questions and the three null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population was 239 comprising of 149 male facilitators and 90 female facilitators. There was no sampling technique because the population was manageable and used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a structure 18-item questionnaire titled “Ethical Usage of Artificial Intelligence Among Facilitators Questionnaire (EUAIAFQ)”. The instrument was validated by the three experts in research and statistics. To ascertain the internal consistency of the instrument, Cronbach Alpha method was used for the computation, the computation yielded 0.085 indicated that the instrument was reliable and used for the study. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer research questions while null hypotheses were tested with Z-test statistics at .05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there was no significance difference in the opinion of the male and female facilitators on the factors during their use of artificial intelligence for academic integrity as well as the challenges faced in the usage and ways of improving the adoption of artificial intelligence. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that there is need for facilitators in the adult education programmes to be trained on the healthy use of artificial intelligence in their various adult education programmes.