Rector Hajrullahu Calls for Ethical AI Use

The third edition of the international conference “KosovaPAR 2025” launched today at the Central University Library amphitheater, with subsequent sessions scheduled across the Faculty of Philosophy’s facilities over the next two days.

Canadian author and entrepreneur Alistair Croll delivered the keynote address at the opening ceremony. In his lecture, Croll emphasized that humans have already transitioned into hybrid beings, spending an average of nearly seven hours daily online outside their working hours. 

During an afternoon panel discussion at the conference, Prof. Arben Hajrullahu, Rector of the University of Prishtina, addressed the current era of artificial intelligence. He stressed that while significant transformations akin to those of the Industrial Revolution, electrification, and automation are recurring, fear of change should not prevail. 

Rector Hajrullahu asserted that universities can no longer operate effectively without substantial progress in digitalization and the ethical use of artificial intelligence. Consequently, the University of Prishtina remains committed to advancing in this direction. 

Hajrullahu participated in a joint panel on human capacity building alongside Hélène Martin, Deputy Director for Statutory Synthesis, Territorial Policies, and Partnerships at the General Directorate of Public Administration and Civil Service (DGAFP) within France’s Ministry of Public Action, Civil Service, and Simplification, and Marilette van As, International Coordinator from the Netherlands at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The session was moderated by Edmir Sejdiu, Director of the Public Administration Reform Department at Kosovo’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. 

Panelists from France and the Netherlands provided examples of their nations’ efforts to legally regulate the use of generative AI in public administration. Discussions concluded that AI tools must function as supportive aids for human labor rather than acting as its substitutes.

Organized by Kosovo’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, University of Prishtina, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, this third edition of the conference focuses on "public administration capacities for and through artificial intelligence."