The Xunta de Galicia announced in April 2026 that it will formally regulate AI use in educational settings as part of the forthcoming Digital Education Law (expected before end-2026). The Xunta’s press release specifies permitted uses — early detection of learning difficulties, personalised resource adaptation, generating support materials — alongside explicit prohibitions: AI may not substitute direct teacher intervention; automated monitoring of student behaviour or attention is banned; and decision-making about students based solely on AI output is forbidden.
All AI systems deployed in schools must be approved and authorised by the Xunta de Galicia, establishing a clear gatekeeping mechanism. The regulation also prohibits any AI-based prediction, classification, or identification of cognitive conditions that could lead to discrimination. These provisions will be embedded in the chapter on AI within the Digital Education Law, providing a binding legal framework at the regional level.
This development goes beyond the existing Ley 2/2025 curriculum provisions already scored and advances Galicia’s implementation detail: it moves from a curriculum mandate (already scored at dim 2=1) toward a regulated, safeguarded deployment framework with defined permitted and prohibited uses. The prohibition on AI replacing teachers and mandatory Xunta authorisation of AI tools used in schools reinforces the binding character of the law, supporting a potential upward revision of dim 2 once the law is formally enacted.