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Spain's record runs through its public services — Madrid's hospitals read prostate and breast scans with AI, and judges may use only official AI tools — backed by the €1.5 billion AI Strategy 2024.

AI readiness
0.65
Rank 29 of 171 — IMF AI Preparedness Index
On the record
5
entries across 4 industries
National programme
2024
Estrategia de Inteligencia Artificial 2024 — €1.5 billion (2024–2025)
National programme

Estrategia de Inteligencia Artificial 2024

Announced 2024, €1.5 billion (2024–2025). Its pillars are strengthening the levers of AI development, AI in the public and private sectors, transparent, ethical and humanistic AI.

Services 68.4% · Industry 19.6% · Agriculture 2.7% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025

Kind
Role
5 entries

Healthcare & Life Sciences

2

Madrid's public hospitals use AI to read MRI scans where prostate cancer is suspected.

DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesSpain10 Sep 2026

Madrid will run AI over records of 2 million chronic patients

Comunidad de Madrid — Comunidad de Madrid will use AI in chronic disease monitoring for close to 2 million patients through CRON-IA, a system flagging early warning signs in their records. Personaliz@ extends remote monitoring for hospital patients recovering at home via continuous assessment and clinical alerts, while PREVEN-IA builds digital twins from genomic, analytical, imaging and clinical data to forecast outcomes, an AI-based patient monitoring approach across three tools. Ayuso outlined the plan at the Madrid Assembly; none of the systems is installed yet, and these remain commitments rather than deployments.

Primary care doctorespaciodiario.com
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesSpain4 May 2026

Madrid puts AI into public hospitals for prostate and breast cancer

Comunidad de Madrid — Spain's Comunidad de Madrid has installed AI cancer diagnosis tools in several public hospitals to spot suspected prostate and breast cancer faster and more accurately, and to follow detected cases. For prostate cancer they help radiologists read MRI and review a patient's whole imaging history together; for breast cancer, systems reading 2D mammograms and 3D tomosynthesis flag suspicious lesions and score how likely malignancy is. Clinicians will test them on diagnosed cases in coming months, with phased installation from summer.

Radiologistgacetinmadrid.com

Education & Training

1

Madrid says it will add AI tools for teachers to EducaMadrid, trialled first in five schools.

DeploymentEducation & TrainingSpain8 Jan 2026

Madrid to add AI tools for teachers to EducaMadrid platform

Comunidad de Madrid (Regional Ministry of Digitalisation) — Spain's Community of Madrid says it will add AI tools for teachers to its EducaMadrid schools platform: first an email assistant that drafts, reviews and polishes, then one designing personalised pupil content automatically. Five schools will trial the features first; each teacher could save about 40 routine hours a year, it estimates.

Teachertelemadrid.es

Government & Public Sector

1

Spain's judiciary restricts judges to AI tools supplied by the justice administrations.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorSpain30 Jan 2026

Spain's judiciary restricts judges to officially provided AI tools

General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) — Spain's General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) approved Instruction 2/2026 on 28 January 2026, setting AI rules for judges and magistrates, generative AI included. Judges may use only AI systems from the competent justice administrations or the CGPJ, and AI may never replace them in deciding cases. The Official State Gazette (BOE) then published it.

boe.es

Media, Telecom & Entertainment

1

Telefónica has built call transcription and AI summaries into its Spanish business phone lines.

DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentSpain12 Aug 2026

Telefónica embeds generative AI in its Spanish business phone services

Telefónica — Telefónica has built generative AI into its business voice services in Spain as 'Centrex AI', across corporate mobile lines and Centrex IP and Centrex 365 virtual PBX products. Features include speaker-labelled, near real-time call transcripts, AI summaries and virtual agents that check records and book appointments, in 100-plus languages. Spanish firms and public administrations come first.

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Europe
Spain0.65United Kingdom0.73Czechia—Hungary—Estonia—Belarus—European Union0.66Albania—Germany0.75Netherlands0.77Switzerland—Andorra—Croatia—Russia—Belgium0.67France0.70Guernsey—Italy0.62Malta—Serbia—Austria0.72Gibraltar—Iceland—Slovakia—Sweden0.75Bosnia and Herzegovina—Denmark0.78Finland—Greece—Ireland0.69Latvia—Moldova—Montenegro—Poland0.60Ukraine—
Method and sources

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