The education in rural areas face very considerable challenges like lack of resources, shortage of trained personnel and digital inequality, that perpetuate an educative gap with regard to urban areas, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) gives a potential transformative to be over these barriers and promote an education more equitable. This article stands out how the AI may be a key tool to improve the access and the quality education in rural contexts, supplying new opportunities for students and teachers, its goal is to identify the barriers that hamper the appropriation of knowledge in the academic process of the rural area and evaluate how the AI contribute to the learning of the quality educational in consideration of the equity in the resources’ distribution. This is achieved through a review of existing literature, analysis of a case study and the evaluation of convenient implementations of AI in rural and educational contexts. Lastly, the results indicate that the AI facilitates the availability and adaptation of educational materials in the moment of providing access to quality content in rural areas, it allows to adapt the individual learning needs of each student, it provides teaching and management tools which help teachers to face challenges in settings with limit resources, it supplies accurate evaluations and instant feedback, letting close the digital gap when afford to the students the required tools to the self-directed learning  and developing of technology skills, improving the efficient of teaching through efficient pedagogical practices.