The increasingly widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education risks emptying the learning process of meaning if it is not framed by clear institutional rules, warns the rector of the West University of Timişoara (UVT), Marilen Pirtea. In the absence of firm pedagogical guidelines, AI can accelerate practices that affect the development of critical thinking, intellectual autonomy and the authentic relationship between teachers and students. The UVT Rector's statements come in the