Greece First in EU to Bind AI in Classrooms by Law-and Bans Under-15s From Social Media

Greece has go the archetypal European Union subordinate authorities to found a binding ineligible model governing the usage of artificial quality successful secondary schools, unveiling the rules astatine the EU Education Ministers' Council successful Brussels alongside a prohibition connected societal media entree for children nether 15 from January 2027.

Education Minister Sofia Zacharaki presented the framework, co-signed with Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou, which mandates quality oversight of each AI tools, strict information extortion and explicit safeguards against deepfakes and misinformation successful the classroom. Mrs. Zacharaki said the argumentation is afloat aligned with the EU AI Act and GDPR.

The model is designed to guarantee AI augments alternatively than supplants teachers, with captious reasoning and integer literacy embedded arsenic halfway program goals.

Greece is simultaneously rolling retired a National Dialogue connected secondary schoolhouse betterment and has integrated fiscal literacy into the nationalist schoolhouse syllabus.

On kid online safety, Mrs. Zacharaki reminded the Council that the societal media prohibition for under-15s — enacted successful May 2025 and taking effect January 2027 — volition beryllium enforced done age-verification exertion and the "Kids Wallet" integer tool, which allows parents to negociate surface clip and app access.

The Council session, themed "Building Bridges for the Future," adopted conclusions connected the teacher's relation successful the AI era.

Mrs. Zacharaki besides coordinated with Ireland and Lithuania connected shared priorities for their upcoming rotating EU Council presidencies.