Teaching, AI, and the Human Core of Education : The Future Worth Defending
For teachers, their unions, and the policymakers who shape the conditions in which they work, the question is no longer whether AI will shape education, but how that shaping will be governed.
The purpose of this report is to take stock of that reality: to identify what has changed, what remains essential, and what education systems must now do differently if AI is to be integrated responsibly, based on needs and governed in the public interest. Its central claim is straightforward. AI is not disrupting the purpose of education. It is disrupting the conditions under which that purpose can be realized. What follows therefore examines what has changed, what has not, and what must now be intentionally rebuilt, protected, and governed.
At the centre of those conditions, and of the report's argument, is the student-teacher relationship, the human bond that gives education its meaning and legitimacy.
