As of mid-2025, Mexico has no centralised, comprehensive AI regulation despite approximately 60 AI-related bills having been introduced in Congress since 2020. A policy brief published by Mexicanos Primero in May 2025 documents the absence of binding standards for AI use in education, noting that demand for AI-related skills in Mexico grew 148% between 2023 and 2025, while formal educational policy has not kept pace. UNESCO completed an AI Readiness Assessment for Mexico and found that the country lacks a coordinated national framework for AI literacy across the education system.
Published by: Mexicanos Primero (Mexican civil society education policy organisation) and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
Key finding: Despite growing labour market demand for AI competencies and active legislative activity, Mexico has no enacted national law or binding curriculum mandate for AI literacy in schools or workplaces as of 2025. The gap between market need and policy action is widening.
Context: Mexico’s absence of binding AI education standards is directly relevant to the AI knowledge divide: as AI-proficient workers gain labour market advantages, the absence of formal policy to build those competencies at scale means the gap will compound, particularly in a country with deep regional and socioeconomic inequality in educational outcomes.