Abstract

Education systems need to establish methods for protecting cognitive integrity and epistemic trust as artificial intelligence increasingly controls knowledge delivery, educational processes and institutional decision processes. Society 5.0 presents a human-centered digital civilization that uses AI to enhance educational foundations instead of substituting them. The proposed Cognitive-AI Interaction Framework (CAIF) serves as a model to study how artificial intelligence transforms educational knowledge production and interpretation processes. The framework uses socio-technical systems (STS) theory together with Ubuntu, Kaitiakitanga, Confucian and Buddhist thoughts, Buen Vivir and Human Rights principles to identify three epistemic modalities: (a) Epistemic Anchoring, (b) Cognitive Mediation Systems, and (c) Synthetic Knowledge Environments. These modalities demonstrate how AI affects trust mechanisms and personalization processes and meaning construction in learning systems. Education protection in Society 5.0 demands both inclusive technology implementation and epistemic governance to maintain ethical design, interpretive transparency and human cognitive autonomy. The paper recommends strategic outputs to help implement ethical AI systems in curriculum development and policy creation and pedagogical design.