International Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Education 2021

The 2021 International Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Education is dedicated to deliberations on how AI governance and AI innovation networks can be enhanced to direct AI towards the common good for education and for humanity. The event will be held online.

The event will provide a platform to discuss how AI governance and AI innovations can be aligned to direct AI towards the common good for education and humanity. The event will be structured around five sub-themes:

• global governance and national policies on AI in education
• ensuring AI as a common good for achieving SDG 4
• mining data to enhance education management and learning assessment
• directing AI innovations at inclusion, equity and gender equality in education
• promoting the use of AI in Africa: build the partnership

Following up on the implementation of the Beijing Consensus on AI and Education adopted at the International Conference on AI and Education (May 2019), UNESCO organized an International Forum on AI and the Futures of Education in December 2020 and consequently published AI and Education: Guidance for policy-makers (April 2021). In addition, in September 2021, UNESCO launched the project on AI and the Futures of Learning to provide Member States with recommendations on AI-enabled futures of learning, ethical principles on the use of AI in education, and a guiding framework on AI competencies for school students.

The 2021 International Forum will build on the ongoing initiatives while contributing to the UNESCO Strategy on Technological Innovation in Education, Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, and the release of the global report Reimagining Our Futures Together: a new social contract for education.

The Forum is organized with support from the Interagency Working Group on Artificial Intelligence established by the High Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) of the United Nations (UN). The Working Group, co-led by UNESCO and ITU, and with 38 UN entities participating, focuses on delivering concrete outcomes on AI aimed at enhancing UN system-wide policy coherence and programmatic coordination, and combining the ethical and technological lens of the UN. The HLCP has multiple workstreams focusing on ethics of AI, AI in education, AI procurement and deployment, AI and justice, Strategic foresight in AI, and AI readiness and AI research. 

• Concept note: English - French - Chinese
• Agenda: English

• UNESCO Forum on AI and Education engages international partners to ensure AI as a common good for education

Contact

For more information, please contact us at aied@unesco.org.