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Artificial intelligence in education

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Artificial Intelligence has the potential to enrich teaching, learning, research, and union organising, but it also raises serious risks. If left unchecked, AI can undermine education as a human right, erode educators’ working conditions and professional autonomy, and perpetuate harmful social and environmental consequences. Education International and its member organisations are strengthening union capacity to shape AI in education through research, advocacy, and collective bargaining.

News and opinion

  1. Democracy 31 October 2025

    Asia-Pacific: Top union leaders reaffirm commitment to defend academic freedom as a cornerstone of democracy

    Growing threats to academic freedom and institutional autonomy require education unions to chart collective strategies for their defense. At the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Academic Freedom and Democracy, unions shared insights and mapped the way forward.

    Read more Asia-Pacific: Top union leaders reaffirm commitment to defend academic freedom as a cornerstone of democracy
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 October 2025

    New TALIS data: Report confirms need to act on global teacher shortage and working conditions

    New data reveals a stark reality: One in five teachers under 30 years of age plan to leave the profession within the next five years. In some education systems, this figure rises to half of young teachers. This finding from the 2024 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), launched today,...

    Read more New TALIS data: Report confirms need to act on global teacher shortage and working conditions
  3. Fighting the commercialisation of education 23 September 2025

    Human-centred AI: EI's global conference charts the future of education

    While tech companies race to embed Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools and campuses worldwide, the voices of educators have been largely sidelined. Education International's conference, Shaping Our Future: Education Unions Leading for a Human-Centred AI, puts educators back at the centre. The 4-5 December Brussels conference will bring together union...

    Read more Human-centred AI: EI's global conference charts the future of education
  4. Future of work in education 23 July 2025

    United States: Union-powered National Academy for AI Instruction aims to put teachers in the driver’s seat on technology in the classroom

    Founded by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and its affiliate the United Federation of Teachers in partnership with Microsoft, Open AI, and Anthropic, the National Academy for AI Instruction will provide access to free training and curriculum on artificial intelligence (AI) for all 1.8 million members of the AFT.

    Read more United States: Union-powered National Academy for AI Instruction aims to put teachers in the driver’s seat on technology in the classroom
  5. Future of work in education 9 July 2025

    Education International opens consultations to ensure voice of the profession is heard in the revision of international Recommendations on the status of teaching personnel

    In the lead up to the revision of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers (1966) and the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997), Education International (EI) has launched a consultation process with its 375 member organisations representing over 33 million educators in 180 countries...

    Read more Education International opens consultations to ensure voice of the profession is heard in the revision of international Recommendations on the status of teaching personnel
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Research

  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    The Unintended Consequences of Artificial Intelligence and Education

    Wayne Holmes
    18 October 2023

    This report sets out to provide an analysis of the current state of artificial intelligence and education, including its potential benefits and risks, as well as the role of teachers and teacher trade unionists in ensuring that teaching with and about artificial intelligence is aligned with the principles of social...

    The Unintended Consequences of Artificial Intelligence and Education See resources 2
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    Teaching with Tech: The role of education unions in shaping the future

    Christina J. Colclough
    27 October 2020

    The Future of Work is not just making the headlines - it has become an issue of increasing importance for students, teachers and the whole of society. While there is always an element of anticipatory anxiety when facing the future there has also been real concern about the arrival of...

    Teaching with Tech: The role of education unions in shaping the future See resources 2

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