Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez told a Madrid AI regulation event that AI cannot be self-regulated by those who control the technology, and outlined Plan IA360 — a 12-month roadmap for responsible deployment, cybersecurity, and economic growth.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday that artificial intelligence cannot be self-regulated by the companies that control the technology, Reuters reported from a Madrid AI regulation event. The remarks land days after U.S. lab heads called for a slowdown. Reuters bylined Victoria Waldersee and David Latona.
Plan IA360: 12-month roadmap
Spain’s government branded the package Plan IA360 on La Moncloa — a 12-month set of concrete actions that puts citizen security, public trust, and vulnerable groups, especially minors, at the center. Reuters framed the same window as a roadmap for responsible deployment tied to economic growth.
La Moncloa listed four goals. Tech muscle: a proposed AI gigafactory and new models with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre for climate, health, and energy, plus data-centre rules stressing high environmental and energy standards, data autonomy, and local community benefit. Adoption and talent: a Bono Inteligencia Artificial voucher for SMEs and self-employed workers, and curriculum updates in secondary education and vocational training. Governance: a cyber shield and tighter supervision of more offensive frontier models. Social contract: a country-level pact with social agents, with talks to be convened next month.
Cyberdefense and resources
Sánchez also called for reinforcing defensive cybersecurity against “aggressive” frontier AI models, Reuters said. On the resource side, the wire summarized his stance as developing the technology not behind citizens’ backs, and treating AI as an opportunity that does not deplete scarce resources — language that tracks the government’s data-centre and sovereignty framing on La Moncloa.
The Moncloa package pairs that sovereignty push with adoption tools: the Bono Inteligencia Artificial for SMEs and autónomos, plus secondary and vocational curriculum updates meant to widen talent pipelines. Governance sits beside those build-out goals — the cyber shield and supervision of more offensive frontier systems — rather than treating industry self-policing as the default.
This brief covers Monday’s Reuters wire and La Moncloa’s Plan IA360 announcement. It does not invent budget figures, model names, or gigafactory location or size beyond what those sources stated.
Sources
- https://www.reuters.com/world/spanish-pm-sanchez-says-ai-industry-cannot-be-self-regulated-2026-09-21/
- https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/presidente/actividades/paginas/2026/210926-sanchez-plan-ia.aspx