Education and Sustainability Panel
Artificial intelligence is no longer only a technological issue, it is a critical space in which rights, educational practices, forms of knowledge and the conditions of human coexistence are being redefined. This is the common thread that ran through the panel dedicated to AI, education and sustainability, bringing philosophical research, educational experimentation and ethical reflection into dialogue. From the dramatic phenomenon of pornographic deepfakes, which disproportionately affect women and adolescents, emerges the urgency of regulation grounded in human rights and in decades of feminist research capable of interpreting the embodied and relational effects of technologies. AI can thus amplify forms of violence that are already structural and fuel increasingly normalized social polarizations.
Alongside this critical scenario, education can become a space of resistance, transformation and responsible design. Experiences of techno aesthetic virtual environments in primary schools, AI and Ethics literacy pathways in secondary schools and curricular experiments integrating logic, philosophy and AI indicate the possibility of cultivating reflective, deliberative and metacognitive competencies oriented toward responsibility toward human beings, non human beings and the environment. In the debate on the university and the humanities, AI does not necessarily mark the end of education, but puts into crisis traditional forms of assessment and transmission of knowledge. Writing, dialogue, argumentative practice and ethical evaluation are called upon to reinvent themselves, from the use of AI as a dialogical partner in Socratic practices to assessment models that privilege processes, traceability and critical discussion over final products alone.
AI technologies act as cognitive mediators that can support, reduce or replace human thinking. For this reason, sustainability requires slowness, attention, intellectual virtues and an educational governance capable of maintaining non delegable spaces of autonomous reasoning. The panel thus offers a vision of AI as an ethical political and educational field, in which the future is not written by algorithms, but depends on the practices, institutions and responsibilities that we choose to cultivate today.
Aldo Pisano