2025 AI Index Report Chapter 7: AI Education
The Overview
Advancements in generative AI have had a significant impact on education, improving efficiency and automating tasks, while providing greater opportunity for personalized learning. Still, while AI promises benefits in education, it also poses risks–from hallucinating false outputs to reinforcing biases and diminishing critical thinking. Harnessing AI’s potential in education and beyond will require expanding AI expertise, starting in K-12 and higher education, and ensuring all students develop both technical literacy and critical analysis of the ethics and impacts of technology necessary to be responsible users and creators.
AI education cannot exist in isolation—it must align with broader computer science (CS) education efforts and be integrated across subjects. This chapter examines the global state of AI and CS education, including access, disparities, and policies shaping AI’s role in learning.
This chapter was a collaboration between Kapor Foundation, CSTA, PIT-UN, and AI Index and examines the global state of AI and computing education, access disparities, and guidelines shaping AI’s role in learning.
Report Highlights
Student participation varies by state, race/ethnicity, school size, geography, income, gender, and disability.
Despite 81% of CS teachers agreeing that using and learning about AI should be included in a foundational CS learning experience, less than half of high school CS teachers felt equipped to teach AI.
This fraction has doubled since 2019, with African and Latin American countries progressing the most. However, students in African countries have the least access to CS education due to schools’ lack of electricity.
Spain, Brazil, and the United Kingdom follow the U.S. as the top producers at various levels, while Turkey boasts the best gender parity.
While increased attention on AI will be slower to emerge in the number of bachelor’s and PhD degrees, the surge in master’s degrees could indicate a future trend for all degree levels.
