Prince El Hassan: The Responsibility of Universities Is Not Limited to Teaching Generations How to Use Artificial Intelligence
Al-Taj News – His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal, in the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, and via remote visual communication technology, patronized Yarmouk University’s celebration of the Golden Jubilee of its founding, at Al-Kindi Auditorium in the Faculty of Arts.
His Highness affirmed, in a guiding speech, that celebrating the university’s Golden Jubilee should not be limited to recalling fifty years that have passed, but rather evoking the founding experience and launching from it to anticipate the future, and working to make knowledge a true capacity to improve human life, not merely an outcome of degrees and research.
His Highness began his speech by recalling the year 1976, in which the university launched with the blessing of the late King Hussein bin Talal, noting that the idea of founding “Yarmouk” was not merely adding a university to the education map, but rather launching a vision whose goal is to bring knowledge close to the people and enable the north of the Kingdom to participate in shaping its future, recalling the graduation ceremony of the university’s first cohort in 1980, and being granted an honorary doctorate alongside the scientist Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in Physics.
His Highness addressed the rapid transformations in the era of artificial intelligence, questioning the extent of the link between the abundance of information and the expansion of human perception, in light of the growing role of algorithms in influencing what we read and watch, and in the way we understand what is happening around us, and the accompanying challenges related to shaping human awareness and distinguishing between truth and what is presented as truth, stressing that the responsibility of universities is not limited to teaching generations how to use artificial intelligence, but extends to developing their ability to recognize its limits, and to distinguish between what the machine produces and what the human decides, ensuring that the human remains the decision-maker and holds responsibility in using and directing technology.
His Highness stressed that loyalty to fifty past years of Yarmouk University’s journey requires making the achievements of the past a starting point to anticipate the next fifty years, during which the university continues to develop critical thinking, link scientific research with application, and prepare generations capable of creativity and giving, affirming that “the giving human being is the most precious thing we possess.”
University President, Malek Al-Sharairi, said in his speech during the celebration, which was attended by the Minister of Education and Human Resources Development, Azmi Mahafzah, that fifty years of “Yarmouk’s” life were not made by an institution alone, but were made by successive generations who believed in its mission and worked sincerely for it.
He added that the university recalls today with all loyalty and appreciation the efforts of the Royal Founding Committee, boards of governance, and former university presidents who succeeded one another in leading it, with each laying a brick in its edifice.
Al-Sharairi presented the university’s strategic plan for the years 2026–2030, noting that achieving this vision is a shared responsibility requiring the concerted efforts of the university family—faculty and administrative staff, students, alumni, the local community, and partners from national and international institutions as well as the public and private sectors—affirming that the future to which “Yarmouk” aspires is not made by plans alone, but by willpower, work, cooperation, and mutual trust.
