Artificial Intelligence

The Artificial Intelligence Taskforce aims to create a global higher education community to share reflections and best practices across Jesuit institutions, serving not only to disseminate knowledge, but also to foster a sense of shared mission and collaborative learning.

Across Jesuit higher education, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping teaching, learning, research practices and administrative work. Because of the rate of change, some institutions are struggling to develop shared norms, governance mechanisms and pedagogical approaches consistent with our mission. The International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) Task Force on AI is an initiative designed to connect Jesuit institutions worldwide in a community of reflection and practice. Our objective is to build a collaborative network that shares experiences and best practices, strengthens a common mission-driven perspective, and enables collective learning grounded in Ignatian spirituality and the Jesuit educational tradition.

To achieve this goal, we will promote activities and consolidate emerging insights from an international higher education perspective. This includes: listening sessions and informal consultations across regions to surface concrete use cases, concerns, and aspirations; an initial inventory of resources and institutional initiatives (e.g., policies, academic integrity guidelines, curriculum experiments, and AI-enabled student support); and a shared framing that links AI adoption to Ignatian themes such as discernment, cura personalis, and the magis, as well as to the Universal Apostolic Preferences.

• December 2026: A joint paper between the AI Task Forces is to be presented during the Conference on Ignatian AI at Fordham University, New York.