As part of the UNESCO - IAU Lecture Series on The Academic Conscience & Artificial Intelligence, this episode welcomes Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Professor of African Studies at Howard University to interrogate the role of AI in shaping access to and ownership of knowledge and question the responsibility of higher education in preserving knowledge as a public good.

The Academic Conscience and Artificial Intelligence

This initiative builds on the IAU and UNESCO’s commitment to supporting inclusive, ethical, and human-centered digital transformation in education. It follows the adoption of UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2021), and seeks to explore the evolving role of universities in shaping, understanding, and responding to the profound changes brought about by AI in knowledge production, learning, governance, and ethics.