Second year students will benefit from one hour of artificial intelligence teaching per week from the start of the 2027 school year, which will be integrated into the digital sciences and technology course, Sébastien Lecornu announced on Friday June 19.
“We cannot let an entire generation discover artificial intelligence without giving them the keys to understanding it and therefore mastering it,” argues the Prime Minister on the social network X, while the VivaTech new technologies fair is being held in Paris.
We cannot let an entire generation discover artificial intelligence without giving them the keys to understanding it, and therefore mastering it.
From the start of the 2027 school year and under the leadership of Minister Edouard Geffray, all second year students will benefit from…
— Sébastien Lecornu (@SebLecornu) June 19, 2026
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“Operation of models, uses, ethics, digital sovereignty, critical thinking in the face of manipulation and false information: our school must prepare young people for the world to come,” adds the head of government.
Wish to accelerate on AI
In February 2025, the then Minister of Education Élisabeth Borne announced that middle and high school students would benefit from online AI training at the start of the 2025 school year, “with compulsory sessions for 4th and 2nd grade students”. But according to union sources, this training has been little implemented.
The head of government emphasizes that “training in AI” and “reducing exposure to screens”, as with the project to ban social networks for young people under 15, “are part of the same ambition: to make our students free, autonomous citizens. Condition of our collective sovereignty.”
The day before the opening of VivaTech, Sébastien Lecornu had outlined his desire to accelerate on AI, and to build “real strategic autonomy”.
He notably announced 655 million euros of additional investments in artificial intelligence and a distancing from the American data analysis giant Palantir, used by the DGSI, in favor of a French solution.
