A delegation from Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Education met representatives of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, during the Education World Forum in London this week, according to Turkmen state media. The talks reportedly addressed the practical possibilities of using AI tools in schools.
The meeting is modest in substance and notable in context. Turkmenistan runs one of the most tightly controlled information environments in the world, with heavily restricted and filtered internet access. A state that limits its citizens’ access to ordinary websites opening a conversation with a frontier AI company is a small but real signal, even if nothing concrete follows.