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The sudden, unexpected breakthrough in the intelligence shown by machines, as a wished for, but very disruptive element, will shape the future of our civilisation and Humans as individuals and collectives. The extreme drive towards commercialisation of newest developments already led to an extremely wide spread of Machine Intelligence Assistants (and chatbots), with plans of many companies to include them into everything they produce. This puts Humans in a very precarious situation, specifically regarding ethics and morale, trustworthiness and confidence. Suddenly we found ourselves in a situation that Education has to be extended to cater for two types of intelligences: the Humans and the Machines. On the Machine side, it has been shown that it is very difficult to obtain a trustworthy and highly ethical non-biased intelligence. The present day approach of "training" the "models" must be overcome by the realisation that MI is based on collected Human knowledge, but initially "trained" without any regard to the order of learning, which directly influences the initial alignment of the emerging intelligence, the same way learning does in Humans. On the Human side, it is getting obvious that this disruptive development was generally completely unexpected, and no educational preparation was ever envisioned for this situation. However, between others, a good example of possible positive cooperation of Humans and Machines, which necessitates proper MI ethics, is Democratisation of Academic Publishing, where, based on blockchain trustworthiness, Open Access publishing is done in such a way that all stakeholders in the process get appropriate recognition and reward. The use of well educated Ethical Machine Intelligence in this process of management of an enormous amount of academic work and peer reviews will enable academic education and scientific development to be ethical, transparent, fair, trustworthy and accessible to all authors and readers throughout their life. [For the full proceedings, see ED654100.]

The Education drives the Future of Humanity. The Wishes and Visions of Humankind have to drive the Education. What is the final goal of Education? To bring up a healthy, emotionally mature, wise, knowledgable nourisher of life, who understands and feels the reality, based on ethics, humanism and compassion, as essential characteristics of a human being, and who is ready to act according to these values. How to achieve that goal? Due to the inevitable development of technology it is necessary to develop a new paradigm of the future principles of educational systems. There are two possible approaches: The Naturo-Humanistic and the Technological, driven by Machine Intelligence, the greatest temporary achievement. In the Technological sense, things are happening at an unbelievable speed, and the human being as an individual, and their collective, has no time to adjust to those changes. There are no clear visions of human society development, despite the informational connectedness and globalisation. In the Naturo-Humanistic sense, it has to be very clear whom we are educating, what we like to achieve with the education, and what is the framework, i.e. the educational environment (social, economical etc.). Due to unconscious, unconscientious and harmful behaviour of people towards the Nature, the ecological consciousness of the interconnectedness of all and everything in the Earth's ecosystem is what has to be thought to children from earliest age. Education must strive towards Wisdom, as knowledge is the knowledge of information, and Wisdom is the know-how of applying knowledge to any problem solving. Knowledge wants to be "used", but only Wisdom is aware of possible future consequences of the application of knowledge. [For the full proceedings, see ED654100.]