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El Salvador President Highlights Evaluation of AI Pilot in Public Schools

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • President Nayib Bukele highlighted an international evaluation of an AI tutoring pilot operating in 171 Salvadoran public schools.
  • The World Bank said participating students achieved results comparable with averages in Sweden and Germany, while cautioning that the findings do not represent the entire education system.
  • The pilot has expanded to more than 1,000 schools, and xAI plans to deploy its Grok assistant in more than 5,000 public schools over the next two years.

President Nayib Bukele has highlighted an international evaluation that found students in El Salvador’s AI tutoring pilot achieved results comparable with average results in Sweden and Germany. The pilot began in 171 public schools and has operated for a little more than a year.

These are the results of our pilot program, which includes Artificial Intelligence tutors and has been in 171 public schools for a little more than a year.

· Nayib BukeleThe Salvadoran president described the pilot after citing the international evaluation.

Bukele shared messages from the World Bank’s Latin America account and said the program had been assessed by PISA for Schools in June. “These are the results of our pilot program, which includes Artificial Intelligence tutors and has been in 171 public schools for a little more than a year,” he wrote. He added that the program had since expanded to more than 1,000 schools and would reach every public school in the country within 18 months.

The World Bank cautioned that the results do not yet represent the entire education system. It said they nevertheless showed “immense potential” and that substantial improvements could be achieved in the short term through high-quality technical work, rigorous implementation and a belief that every child can learn.

The participating students obtained results comparable with the averages of Sweden and Germany.

· World BankThe bank’s Latin America account summarized the reported performance of students in the pilot.

The program is linked to a partnership announced in December 2025 between El Salvador’s government and xAI, the artificial intelligence company owned by Elon Musk. According to information shared by xAI and reposted by Bukele, the company will deploy Grok, its AI assistant, in more than 5,000 public schools over the next two years. The costs have not been disclosed.

These results do not yet correspond to the entire education system, but they show immense potential.

· World BankThe bank qualified the evaluation and emphasized that it covered only the pilot.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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