AI Challenges and the Future of Education: A Needed Epistemic, Political, and Ecological Agenda for Critical Leadership Scholars and Practitioners

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is already transforming contemporary education. Besides revolutionizing how students learn and educators teach it is also challenging the frameworks of knowledge and power that underpin leadership. Unfortunately, and because of an imposed discourse of urgency spread from big AI corporations and economic and political interests, AI has been rapidly integrated into educational settings without a profound and critical evaluation of its assumptions and consequences. This is the main reason why leadership educators need to move beyond understanding AI's technical capacity to a deeper engagement with its impact on the meaning, practice and power of leadership.