UNESCO Chair Loes Damhof leads workshop on AI, futures literacy

A UNESCO official is warning that the world's education systems are dangerously unprepared for artificial intelligence, launching a sweeping effort to teach students and teachers how to anticipate and shape the technology's future rather than simply react to it. Loes Damhof, who holds a prestigious UNESCO Chair dedicated to futures literacy, argues that traditional AI ethics training misses the point — what matters is equipping people with the imaginative capacity to envision multiple technological outcomes and influence which ones actually materialize. The initiative, now spreading through workshops at American universities, challenges the assumption that AI literacy is primarily a technical problem, reframing it instead as a question of institutional will and democratic foresight.

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