Artificial Intelligence Strategy
The Geneva Graduate Institute is developing a comprehensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy to guide the responsible and mission-aligned integration of AI across teaching, research, administration, and public engagement.
Developed through a consultative process involving faculty, researchers, students, and staff, the strategy responds to the growing role of AI in academia and global governance. It provides a structured yet evolving framework grounded in the Institute’s core values of human rights, sustainability, peace, and academic integrity.
Why an AI Strategy?
Artificial intelligence represents a profound transformation in how knowledge is produced, shared, and governed. For an institution dedicated to international affairs, engaging with AI is both a scholarly responsibility and a strategic priority.
The Institute approaches AI both as a tool supporting academic work and as an object of inquiry central to global governance, power relations, and ethics.
A Human-Centred Approach
At the core of the strategy is a clear principle: AI must support—never replace—human judgment and intellectual responsibility.
The Institute promotes a critical and responsible engagement with AI, ensuring that its use remains aligned with democratic values, transparency, and inclusion, while avoiding the reproduction of inequalities.
Strategic Priorities
The strategy defines key priorities guiding AI adoption across the Institute:
- Governance: Establish clear and adaptive frameworks for selecting and overseeing AI tools
- Responsible use: Ensure AI strengthens academic quality and institutional effectiveness
- AI literacy: Equip students, faculty, and staff with the skills to critically assess and use AI
- Data protection: Guarantee compliance with legal, ethical, and intellectual property standards
- Risk monitoring: Identify and respond to risks such as bias, misinformation, and threats to integrity
Areas of Implementation
Teaching
The Institute will integrate AI into learning while safeguarding academic integrity, strengthening AI-related competencies, and adapting assessment methods to focus on critical thinking and process.
Research
The strategy supports both research with AI and research on AI, while ensuring ethical standards, data protection, and responsible use.
Administration
AI will be used to enhance efficiency while maintaining transparency, accountability, and human oversight in institutional processes.
Outreach and Public Engagement
The Institute will actively contribute to global debates on AI governance, leveraging its position within International Geneva and its executive education activities.
A Living Strategy
The AI Strategy is conceived as a living framework, designed to evolve alongside technological and societal developments.
Its next phase will focus on translating these principles into a concrete action plan, including priorities, timelines, and resource allocation.
