Since 2019, UNESCO, in cooperation with China, has been leading global efforts centred on the twin strands of AI and education, aiming to ensure that (i) the introduction of AI in education serves education as a public endeavour and a common good, and (ii) education develops the competencies needed for the AI era.

The first International Conference on AI and Education was co-organized by UNESCO and the Government of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing in 2019. It was during this Conference that the Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence and Education was adopted.

To follow up on the implementation of the Beijing Consensus, the second international forum was held both online and in person in Beijing in December 2020. In December 2021, the third forum took place online and in person in Beijing, under the theme ‘Ensuring AI as a Common Good to Transform Education’. Together, the three international forums featured more than 200 interventions and presentations, and reached more than 8,000 real-time international participants and viewers from more than 150 countries.

This series of the forums has aimed to become a sustainable platform to promote knowledge sharing and the achievement of international agreements in the field of AI and education.

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