On the first day of a four-day conference, twenty-five education ministers in Paris…
On the first day of a four-day conference, twenty-five education ministers in Paris signed a single sentence.
The sentence says that in the age of AI, education remains a human right and a common good.
It reads like a platitude. But a line usually gets written into a statement because somebody is pushing hard in the opposite direction.
That same week, the person actually deciding which AI a school uses was not a minister. It was a procurement officer, and a teacher who downloaded an app on her phone the night before.
So when I read the document, the useful part was not the declaration. It was the three policy briefs published alongside it: age-appropriateness, procurement, and digital sovereignty. A declaration is written for the press. A procurement rule is written for the contract. The second one is what changes a classroom.
If it were your call to pick the AI tool a primary school uses next year, what would you ask first?
