AESIA brings its Laboratory of Ideas to Lugo today to answer questions about artificial intelligence

The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) holds today, Friday 6 November, a session of its Laboratory of Ideas at the Diputación de Lugo. The event, open to the general public, will begin at 12:45 and attendance requires prior registration through the form enabled on the Diputación's website, as reported by La Voz de Galicia on 4 November.

The session will take place in the Diputación's assembly hall and will combine basic training with participation: basic notions about artificial intelligence for all audiences will be explained, advice on using this technology responsibly and tips for detecting fake content generated with AI, a syllabus designed for citizens and not for specialists.

"It is not an event aimed at people with knowledge of AI, but at the general public", the organisers explain. The objective, they stress from AESIA, is "to hold a talk in which basic concepts about artificial intelligence are explained, but we also want to generate debate, for people to give their opinion about artificial intelligence and tell us their doubts, concerns and worries about this technology".

AESIA is a public body attached to the Ministry for Digital Transformation, a condition worth keeping in mind to understand its dual nature: supervisor of the AI ecosystem and, at the same time, an instrument of the public policy of promoting the technology.

A syllabus that portrays real concerns

The selection of contents of the session is in itself a diagnosis: basic notions about AI for all audiences, advice on using the technology responsibly and tips for detecting fake content. The order is not accidental. Before talking about regulation or markets, the supervisor puts on the table the three operations citizens perform daily with AI - using it without understanding it, using it without judgement and not knowing whether what they see is real - and treats them for what they are: literacy problems, not just legal ones.

That commitment to literacy also has a strategic function for the supervisor itself. A citizenry that knows what an AI system is, what it can expect from it and how to detect its deceptions is also a citizenry that complains better: it distinguishes the technical error from the abuse, documents its complaints and reaches the supervision channels with usable cases. Outreach training is, in that sense, the first line of effective supervision.

From citizen debate to public policies

The Lugo session is not an isolated outreach event: the opinions gathered in these activities are incorporated into the reports and analysis documents produced by the Laboratory of Ideas, which in turn serve to formulate proposals for public policies and legislative or social improvements that put AI at the service of people. The organisers describe these meetings as an opportunity to bring the administrations closer to citizens, "so that they talk to us about the topics that interest them and so that their opinions are taken into account when it comes to improving their lives and protecting their fundamental rights in any area".

The Laboratory of Ideas in AI is a space for analysis and debate that arises within AESIA to anticipate the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. It is composed of some twenty Spanish experts of recognised national and international prestige, references in fields such as AI, technology, law, education, philosophy, equality, labour relations and human rights. Its members work altruistically to promote research, innovation and debate on the development and responsible use of AI, with the aim of anticipating, analysing and evaluating its impacts and promoting a reliable and ethical use of it.

The supervisor that goes out into the street

There is a change of institutional culture behind events like today's. Traditional supervisors - the banking regulator, the competition authority or the data protection authority - have built their authority from sanction and instruction, with a public presence oriented to operators and lawyers. AESIA is born with a different challenge: the technology it supervises is in every citizen's pocket, is updated every few months and generates concerns that do not fit in a file. Hence formats such as the Laboratory of Ideas, where the supervisor listens before instructing, and territorial sessions such as Lugo's, where the agency makes itself visible outside the usual axis.

For the legal sector, that territorial presence has a practical reading: the concerns that citizens convey today in these forums will be the topics of tomorrow's reports, and the supervisor's reports usually anticipate where the criteria for action will come from. Listening to what worries people in Lugo is, at bottom, listening to what the agency will study afterwards.

An event framed in a listening tour

Today's session is neither the first nor the last: the agency has been developing these citizen outreach activities in different points of the territory, and the information it gathers in them adds cumulatively to the Laboratory's work. Each meeting gives the supervisor a more complete picture of how society perceives artificial intelligence, an input that no written consultation to operators can replace.

For those in Lugo or nearby who wish to attend, registration follows the channel of the form enabled by the Diputación, and the 12:45 session is designed to be compatible with the working morning.

Why it is worth following its track

For lawyers, AESIA's activity has an interest that goes beyond the merely informative. The agency is a central piece of the Spanish artificial intelligence supervision ecosystem, and the work of its Laboratory of Ideas frequently anticipates the lines that later translate into guides, supervision criteria or legislative proposals. Following its territorial agenda is a cheap form of regulatory anticipation.

The sensitivity to take the AI debate out of the big Madrid circuits - Lugo is an unusual venue in these forums - also fits with the decentralisation logic that a good part of the institutions are applying to their outreach activity. In our coverage of the supervisor and of AI regulation you can consult the analysis of the AEPD's policy on generative AI in law firms and of agentic AI under the data protection magnifying glass.

Precision note: the event data - venue, time, outreach nature, registration and quotes from the organisers - come from the information published by La Voz de Galicia on 4 November 2026; the description of the Laboratory of Ideas corresponds to what AESIA itself disseminates in that information.

Sources

• La Voz de Galicia: "The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence comes to Lugo to answer questions about AI"