Purpose Amid heated global discourses on the benefits, challenges, and propositions of adopting AI in educational leadership, this study elucidates the global impacts of AI on educational leadership and how educational leaders should approach it. Design/Approach/Method Using the Responsible AI framework, this study systematically reviews literature on AI and educational leadership from 2015 to 2024. Findings AI empowers educational leadership but also brings potential costs and risks. It has been approached and applied differently in educational leadership globally, without a consensus on how to leverage it. A human-centered, symbiotic relationship between AI and educational leaders could be a future trend if leaders reconstrue, change, and adapt educational leadership through the responsible use of AI. Originality/Value This study contributes to presenting and analyzing global opinions of AI and educational leadership amid systematic differences and regional diversities in technology adoption. It advances international scholarship on the disciplinary application of AI in educational leadership and the evolving discourses surrounding educational leadership.
Chen et al. (Tue,) studied this question.