Pre 8: IGF Youth Track: AI empowering education through dialogue to implementation – Follow-up to the AI Action Summit declaration from youth

During the 2025 AI Action Summit in Paris, at the invitation of the French Digital Ambassador, the IGF Youth Track co-organizing group developed its position on how AI can empower education, as outlined in their joint declaration. The declaration focuses on how a multistakeholder community can harness the potential of AI-related technologies to enhance the quality of education and achieve SDG 4. It also builds on the outcomes of the IGF 2024 Global Youth Summit, hosted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and centers the discussion on leveraging the current momentum with the implementation of the Global Digital Compact, progress on the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, and preparations for the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society. During the AI Action Summit in Paris on 11 February 2025, the declaration was discussed among multistakeholder leaders, including both current and next-generation experts. This workshop, hosted at EuroDIG, will provide an opportunity for youth from around the world to engage in a dialogue with current multistakeholder leadership to discuss how the declaration’s objectives and ideas can be translated into practice. Through discussions with senior stakeholders, a network of Youth IGF coordinators will explore how AI can advance education. This includes the 193 Governments action such as modernizing curricula, strengthening international cooperation, and developing AI-driven educational frameworks that promote lifelong learning and adaptability in an evolving technological landscape. The workshop will also examine the role of all stakeholders – including Governments, the private sector, civil society, academia, and the technical community – in ensuring that the design, deployment, and utilization of AI support the creation of localized educational content that aligns with diverse cultural and contextual needs while fostering global knowledge-sharing and collaboration.