Iceland Expert Group Submits 69 AI Proposals, Including National Framework for AI in Schools

A government-appointed expert group in Iceland has submitted 69 proposals on artificial intelligence across ten policy areas, with three headline priorities: AI education and skills, Icelandic-language technology developed with rights holders, and coordinated implementation across government. The report recommends a national framework for AI in schools and measuring the technology's effect on the labour market. Ministers approved an inter-ministerial steering group on Friday, while the remaining recommendations still require review and implementation decisions; the report will feed into an updated AI and language-technology action plan expected by the end of the year.

The report places a school AI framework, Icelandic-language model benchmarks and government data policy in one set of 69 proposals, showing a small-language country tying AI education capacity to language-technology sovereignty. For education systems, a national framework would change compliance conditions for school procurement and teacher training; for AI education product providers, Icelandic-language model benchmarks and a shared training recipe could become technical thresholds for entering the local market. Only the inter-ministerial steering group has been approved so far, and the remaining recommendations still await review, so the actual scope of implementation remains uncertain. If Iceland's national framework for AI in schools takes effect, it would change compliance requirements for local school procurement of AI tools and teacher training. Icelandic-language model benchmarks and a shared training recipe could become technical thresholds for small-language AI education products entering the Icelandic market.