The Ministry of National Education has issued comprehensive ethical guidelines to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in schools, introducing mandatory online ethics declarations and a centralized reporting system aimed at ensuring transparency, accountability and student safety.
Ethical guidelines for the application of artificial intelligence in education set the rules for how AI technology is developed, implemented, monitored, and evaluated across public education institutions. The guidelines were developed based on the Ministry's Artificial Intelligence Policy Document and Action Plan for 2025-2029 and came into effect on June 17, 2025.
A separate directive establishing the Ministry's Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee entered into force on October 22, 2025, forming the institutional backbone of the new regulatory framework.
Under the new rules, teachers and staff of both central and state education directorates will have to submit an ethics declaration form through a newly created online platform before introducing AI-based applications in educational settings. This declaration confirms that the planned use of AI complies with national ethical standards.
The guidelines also define the structure and responsibilities of a multi-tier oversight system that includes national ethics committees, state and district-level committees, and school-based AI ethics teams responsible for monitoring compliance and addressing potential violations.
Officials said the ethical principles were developed through an extensive review of national and international policy documents and previously published recommendations on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
This document provides further details on how ethics violations are reported, documented, reviewed and followed up, and clarifies procedures for disciplinary and corrective action.
To support this framework, the Ministry will launch the Artificial Intelligence Applied Ethics Declaration System (YAZEK) on February 2nd. The platform will be used to collect ethics statements online and record and evaluate reports of ethical violations in a standardized manner.
The ministry said the initiative aims to ensure that artificial intelligence is used in schools in a safe, inclusive and educationally beneficial way, while increasing transparency and accountability for students, teachers and parents.
The guidelines are available on the Ministry's Education Commission website.
