My YouTube Ethics Statement: Sponsorships, Reviews, and AI Tools

In this video, I'm sharing my approach to ethics and transparency on this channel. As a technology educator at a research university, I explain how this YouTube channel fits into my life as a hobby that I balance carefully with my full-time academic responsibilities. I break down why I spend about 10 hours per week creating everything myself—from scripting to editing—and how this shapes the content choices I make.

I cover several key areas in this ethics statement: why I can't accept sponsorships or paid consulting work due to potential conflicts of interest with my day job (though I'm happy to help with free advice when my schedule allows), my approach to product and software reviews (I only cover things I'm genuinely excited about), and how I use AI tools ethically in my workflow—the same way I teach my students to use them as productivity helpers, not for creating actual content. I also explain the best ways you can support this channel if you choose to, primarily through engagement like watching, liking, commenting, and subscribing, which really helps in the YouTube algorithm and keeps this hobby sustainable for me.