Higher education leaders examine how AI can boost human intelligence

In a period of "unpredictable" and "disruptive" global change, leaders in higher education are shifting the conversation from whether artificial intelligence should be used to how it can be governed to enhance human intelligence.

At the AI in Higher Education Summit, hosted by ESCP Business School (France), being held on 17-18/03/2026, experts gathered to define a future where education, and not technology, drives the academic mission.

Léon Laulusa, Dean of ESCP (École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris), warned against the danger of letting technology dictate human behaviour simply because it was already in place. He emphasised that while generative AI provided answers, the human role was to ask the right questions. "The leader of tomorrow is not the one who knows everything, but the one who knows how to discern, prioritise and organise their intention," Laulusa said.

He highlighted that soft skills were the "new hard skills," noting that machines can process information faster, but humans must provide critical thinking and emotional intelligence. As a practical example, he pointed to…