Iceland expert group proposes 69 AI measures for schools and government
The recommendations prioritize education, Icelandic-language models and public services; most still await implementation decisions.
Education, language and government lead the recommendations
A government-appointed expert group has delivered 69 recommendations for Iceland’s approach to AI across ten policy areas, Iceland Review reported on October 10. Its headline priorities are education and skills, Icelandic-language technology developed with rights holders, and coordinated adoption across government. The education proposals include a national framework for AI in schools and work to measure its effects on the labour market.
For language technology, the report calls for cooperation with rights holders, a shared training recipe and benchmarks for Icelandic-language models. Other proposals address copyright, computing capacity, data centers, energy and regulation. Public-sector recommendations include consolidating state IT operations and improving government data policy, according to the English-language account.
Recommendations are not all approved policy
Iceland Review says ministers approved an inter-ministerial steering group on Friday, October 9. The remaining recommendations still need review and implementation decisions. The report is intended to inform an updated AI and language-technology action plan expected by year-end; it is not evidence that all 69 measures are already in force. This coverage relies on the English reporting, not on an untranslated government document.