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Governments and Universities Roll Out AI Tools to Support Teaching and Prevent Dropout

Pilot tests of AI tutors plus guidance platforms proceed as officials draft privacy and governance rules

Overview

  • On July 2 the Xunta de Galicia convened an international advisory team that includes advisers from Harvard and Oxford to develop EdugalIA after securing €10 million through the Compra Pública Innovadora procurement process.
  • The University of Buenos Aires has deployed an in‑platform AI agent across 40 subjects reaching about 2,000 students and adopted rules that require students to attribute AI use and retain responsibility for their work.
  • Tecnológico de Monterrey launched TecGPT, an institutional chat tool based on open models that was piloted in ten universities with roughly 1,100 participants to create a safer, university‑governed AI environment.
  • A Realbotix pilot in the Salamanca City Central school district in New York pairs an M‑Series humanoid with the Optio tutor platform for AI and robotics classes and may expand to about 500 students if early results show benefit.
  • Across projects advisers and commentators stress immediate priorities for evaluation and scale: clear anonymization and privacy rules, teacher training, transparent impact metrics and interoperable data practices to protect student dignity while testing whether AI can spot and help at‑risk learners.