Paris, 10/07/2025 - In December 2024, at the request of the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research, François Taddei - founder and president of the Learning Planet Institute - was entrusted, along with Frédéric Pascal - director of the DataIA institute and Vice President IA of’Paris-Saclay University - a strategic mission dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) within public higher education establishments.
At the heart of this approach lies a democratic challenge: How can we ensure that AI does not widen inequalities, but instead becomes a lever for inclusion, pedagogical transformation and collective creativity? How can we rethink the university to make it a central player in the critical, shared and enlightened appropriation of these new tools?
Six months later, the report entitled «AI and higher education: Training, structuring and appropriation by society».»*, draws up a lucid report and proposes structuring actions to ensure that higher education becomes a central player in the learning society of the AI era.
Six levers for action are mentioned:
- Pool resources (infrastructure, content, best practices) to limit inequalities.
- Massive training for all players (students, teachers, staff) in and with AI.
- Encourage appropriation through action research, experimentation and ongoing training.
- Transforming higher education institutions by leveraging AI to foster inclusion, democracy and innovation.
- Developing a sovereign infrastructure (datacenters, European models, interoperable).
- Support a coherent national policy, with the creation of a national «AI, education and society» institute.
The results of the IA and higher education mission, together with the correlated report, were presented on July 10, 2025, at the French Ministry of Education., in the presence of Elisabeth Borne, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, and Philippe Baptiste, Minister of Higher Education and Research.
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* Rapporteurs François Taddei & Frédéric Pascal
* Co-rapporteurs : Emilie-Pauline Gallié & Marc de Falco
