The Ministry of Education plans to introduce a course on AI and information security in all schools starting in January 2027

Starting in the second term of this school year, the course will begin to be tested in pilot schools, Novaya Gazeta Europe writes.

Students will be told about how AI works and how it is used in science, medicine, ecology, education, and industry. Some lessons will be devoted to information security, countering online fraud, and usage risks.

The course will be called “Artificial Intelligence and Information Security”. From January 2027, it is planned to be introduced in all schools in Russia, and from September 2027, it is expected to become mandatory for students in grades 5–11 and be added to the timetable, similar to “Conversations About Important Things”.

Textbooks for the course are already being prepared. The day before, the publication Agentstvo found identical curricula for this subject on the websites of several schools from three different regions.

In ninth grade, according to these programs, schoolchildren will be taught how to develop bots in Telegram. This lesson is supposed to be included in the module “Some Programming Techniques for Working with AI”.

The introduction of the artificial intelligence course was announced back in September. It concerns a course for the entire Russian school system.

Sources

• Novaya Gazeta Europe