United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Memory and Machine [Beginner]

Some things are lost quietly, a language with its last speaker, a mind that no longer has to think for itself. As globalization thins the world's tongues and AI arrives in classrooms, UNESCO faces the same question in two forms, what is worth preserving in human memory and human cognition, and what disappears the moment we stop tending it. This committee asks delegates to decide what we keep, and what we let a machine replace.

Subtopic A: Safeguarding Endangered and Indigenous Languages
A language does not die by decree, it dies with its last generation of speakers. Roughly 40% of the world's 7,000+ indigenous languages are endangered, leading to the Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032). A language is never only words, and its last speaker takes an unread library with them. Delegates should weigh national cohesion vs. minority rights and archiving vs. living speakers, fund mother-tongue education, and ask whether a language can be rescued by policy, or only by those who keep using it.

Subtopic B: Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Education
Every education system was forced a technology it did not ask nor had rules for. UNESCO found fewer than 10% of 450+ institutions had any AI policy, shortly publishing guidance on AI. The deeper divide is cognition, not policy. Researchers found students using AI showed weakest brain activity and little recall, a cognitive debt with a reverse Flynn effect of falling scores, all while AI slop crowds the internet. Delegates must weigh personalized learning vs. dependence, and decide whether education should adapt or set its terms with technology.