Digital Guardrails: Greece Sets First Binding Rules for AI in Classrooms

Greece has enacted its archetypal broad regulatory model for Artificial Intelligence (AI) successful secondary education, establishing a binding acceptable of rules to forestall information exploitation and sphere the quality constituent successful teaching.

Education Minister Sofia Zacharaki presented the caller argumentation astatine the EU Education Ministers' Council successful Brussels, positioning Greece arsenic 1 of the archetypal European nations to codify

AI morals successful schools pursuing the adoption of the EU AI Act.

The framework, co-signed by Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou, mandates that AI serves strictly arsenic a pedagogical assistance alternatively than a replacement for educators.

Under the caller regulations, AI systems are barred from grading students oregon evaluating staff.

To forestall the "dehumanization" of learning, assignments cannot beryllium produced wholly by AI, and its usage is strictly prohibited during exams unless specifically authorized.

The argumentation besides institutes a prohibition connected generating deepfakes oregon falsified world citations.

"We privation AI successful education, but with rules, responsibility, and ever nether teacher supervision," Ms. Zacharaki told her European counterparts.

Data privateness serves arsenic the framework's core.

Schools are prohibited from feeding delicate pupil information—including names, voices, and grades—into AI systems without rigorous anonymization.

Each schoolhouse volition name an "AI Use Coordinator" to oversee compliance, portion each approved applications volition tally done the unafraid Panhellenic School Network.

The determination comes alongside Greece's broader integer information push, including the "Kids Wallet" parental power instrumentality and a planned 2027 prohibition connected societal media for minors nether 15.

Ms. Zacharaki emphasized that these measures guarantee a "human-centric" modulation into the caller technological era.