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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. Fighting the commercialisation of education 9 December 2025

    Trust cannot be automated: education unions shape the AI future

    Around the world, artificial intelligence is being rapidly integrated into education systems. Governments and technology companies promise efficiency, “personalised learning” and data-driven decisions. But for teachers and their unions, AI raises far more fundamental questions: Who controls education? What happens to professional autonomy, democratic accountability, equity and labour rights when...

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  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 December 2025

    Using Artificial Intelligence: Takeaways from TALIS 2024

    Ruochen Li

    Education systems around the world are asking if and how to incorporate artificial intelligence into teaching and learning. At the forefront of this conversation are teachers, who must not only monitor their students’ usage of artificial intelligence, but also decide whether to use it themselves.

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  3. Equity and inclusion 4 December 2025

    Education in the age of artificial intelligence: The need for deliberate design

    Fien Depaepe, Jan Elen

    Education is facing a number of challenges, such as a shortage of teachers, declining formal student outcomes, and increasing heterogeneity in classrooms. At the same time, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and personalized learning. But, the debate regarding AI in education is often...

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  4. Equity and inclusion 3 December 2025

    Keeping humanity at the center: Accessibility and artificial intelligence in education

    Daaiyah Bilal-Threats, Brittany J. Patrick, Ph.D.

    In a classroom in upstate New York, a special education teacher pulls up a set of Tobii eye-tracking devices, each calibrated to a student’s unique gaze patterns. Around the room, quiet concentration fills the air as students with cerebral palsy and autism prepare to begin their writing activity. Instead of...

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  5. Future of work in education 2 December 2025

    Education Voices | Using collective bargaining to regulate the use of technology and artificial intelligence in higher education

    Eric Rader

    This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .

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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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