Uruguay's AI record is strongest in its classrooms — three in four teachers use AI, and public-school teachers now get Gemini and NotebookLM — under the national AI strategy for 2024–2030.
Announced 2024.
Services 65.2% · Industry 16.9% · Agriculture 6.4% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025
Three in four Uruguayan teachers use AI tools in their everyday practice.
Uruguay16 Jun 2026Ceibal and ANEP — Ceibal and education authority ANEP have added Gemini for Education (Plus version) and NotebookLM to the AI tools for teachers already in CREA and the Matific and Aleks maths platforms. Teachers may request data-protected institutional accounts, use is voluntary, and Ceibal's president promises monitoring and evaluation of the effects.
Uruguay27 May 2026Universidad de la República (Udelar) — The governing council of Uruguay's public University of the Republic (Udelar) has approved university AI principles institution-wide. The document sees AI helping academic and administrative work and asks for transparent, ethical use; it puts 'general interest and centrality of the human person' first.
Uruguay12 May 2026Ceibal / ANEP — Three in four Uruguayan primary and secondary teachers now use AI in teaching day to day, finds a national Ceibal study published by education authority ANEP. Combining the National Teacher Survey and fieldwork, it found chatbots the most used tool, mainly for generating materials, designing activities and assessments, and preparing content.
Florida's departmental government guides residents through its new portal with FlorIA, an AI assistant.
Uruguay10 Jul 2026Intendencia de Florida — Uruguay's Florida departmental government has launched Mi Portal Florida with FlorIA, an AI virtual assistant that guides users and answers common questions, on a single citizen portal for geolocated complaints, appointments and procedures. It aims to curb repetitive enquiries so staff can concentrate on resolving cases.
Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay interviews intern applicants through an AI interview platform.
Uruguay10 Sep 2026Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU) — Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU) is screening 2026 administrative internship candidates through AI job interviews on the MeetPIA platform. The eliminatory video interviews run about 45 minutes without pauses between 11 and 15 September, scoring up to 30 points with 15 needed to pass. MeetPIA chief executive Martín Liguori says the system assesses and suggests while a person always decides.
Half of Uruguayan adults have never used AI, while one in four uses it daily or fairly often.
Uruguay20 Aug 2026Equipos Consultores — Equipos Consultores finds half of Uruguay's adults have never used AI tools; a quarter are daily or fairly frequent users and the rest occasionally. AI use in Uruguay tracks education: almost nine in ten university graduates have tried it, but eight in ten people with only primary schooling never have. The survey of 705 adults on AI habits ran from 23 June to 8 July 2026.
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