Artificial Intelligence and the University

The advent of artificial intelligence presents the university with a challenge that goes beyond the introduction of new educational tools. For centuries, the university has been a place for the production of knowledge, the discussion of collective problems and the intellectual formation of societies. The emergence of systems capable of undertaking activities once associated with human reasoning makes it necessary to reconsider that mission.

Carlos Javier Regazzoni examines the changes these technologies are bringing to teaching, learning and our relationship with knowledge. He also asks about the consequences of an increasing share of knowledge production and technological capabilities becoming concentrated in large private organisations. His reflection connects the evolution of the university with democracy, equality of opportunity and social mobility.

The future of humanity thus emerges as an educational and political question as well as a technological one: what role will universities retain as spaces for critical thought, shared reflection and the construction of life in common in the age of artificial intelligence?