CHALLENGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR THE LEGITIMATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION


DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2415-881x.2025.97.158-171

Nataliia Fialko

Abstract


It is found that the growing influence of Artificial Intelligence on higher education changes not only the legitimacy of higher education, but also the legitimacy of Artificial Intelligence itself. It is hypothesized that the widespread use of the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence may lead to the replacement of democratic legitimacy with digital manipulation – both in politics and in education. This challenge affects the legitimacy of modern higher education, which is increasingly dependent on the legitimacy of Artificial Intelligence for education. It is determined that the challenges of Artificial Intelligence are both positive and negative: on the one hand, society needs the development of digital education and the constant increase in the digital efficiency of citizens, but, on the other hand, citizens must maintain decision-making autonomy, otherwise there is a risk of the state turning into a digital dictatorship. The safeguard against the misuse of Artificial Intelligence in higher education and the loss of education of its main function – human development – should be the strengthening of the legitimacy of higher education. Such strengthening should be based on a clear distinction between knowledge and information, which makes it possible to orient educational motivation of students primarily to obtaining knowledge, and on this basis – to practical skills in operating information. Security challenges in higher education consist primarily in the fact that educational values must be protected from their falsification by formal learning outcomes. It has been found that the misuse of the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence in higher education only deepens the already existing crisis of legitimacy of higher education. The conclusion is that it is necessary to clarify the social significance of higher education in the information society, to clarify basic educational values, and on this basis to form a new, nonlinear legitimacy of higher education, when everyone who studies, in addition to narrow professional competence, will receive communication and digital competence as mandatory.

Keywords


Artificial Intelligence; legitimacy of higher education; legitimacy of Artificial Intelligence; philosophy of information; security challenges; educational values; educational motivation

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