Artificial Intelligence · Argentina
AI regulation in Argentina: laws & policy (2026)
Argentina shaded by its artificial intelligence status
AI in Argentina: guidelines only.
FrameworkNo comprehensive federal AI statute. Governance rests on the 2019 Plan Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ArgenIA), non-binding federal guidelines (Disposición 2/2023 'Recomendaciones para una IA Fiable'; AAIP Resolución 161/2023), a 2025 provincial framework (Buenos Aires Res. 9/2025) and general laws (data protection Law 25.326, consumer, IP). A May 2026 executive bill on 'non-human corporations' and unregulated AI is pending in Congress.
Argentina has no horizontal AI law in force. It relies on soft-law federal guidelines, a national AI strategy (ArgenIA 2019), sector- and data-protection-based supervision by the AAIP, and — since late 2025 — the first binding provincial regime in Buenos Aires for AI use in public administration. In May 2026 President Milei sent Congress a bill proposing an explicitly deregulatory AI framework alongside a new 'non-human corporation' category; it remains a draft.
Key points
The Plan Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial, coordinated by the then Secretariat of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, sets strategic axes (talent, data, infrastructure, R&D, public-sector adoption, ethics/regulation) running to 2030. It is a policy strategy, not binding law.
The Subsecretaría de Tecnologías de la Información issued 'Recomendaciones para una Inteligencia Artificial Fiable' on 1 June 2023 (Official Gazette, 2 June 2023). Directed at the national public sector, it applies ethical principles across the AI lifecycle and reserves accountability and oversight to humans; it is non-binding for the private sector.
AAIP Resolution 161/2023 (published 4 September 2023) created a Programme for Transparency and Personal-Data Protection in the Use of AI, including an AI observatory, multidisciplinary advisory council, sectoral diagnostics and AI-adapted privacy-impact tools, applied under Law 25.326 (data protection).
The Subsecretaría de Gobierno Digital of the Province of Buenos Aires enacted Resolution 9/2025 in November 2025 — the first mandatory AI framework in Argentina. It introduces a risk-tier classification (unacceptable/high/limited/zero risk), a Provincial Registry of AI Systems, audit/traceability duties and public-notice requirements when AI is used, binding public bodies of the Province.
On 29 May 2026 President Javier Milei sent Congress a draft creating a corporate category run by AI agents (with a human administrator still liable) alongside a commitment to keep AI 'unregulated' and a low corporate tax. The bill remains under debate in the Senate and is not enacted.
Absent an AI law, obligations are drawn from Personal Data Protection Law 25.326 (enforced by AAIP), Consumer Protection Law 24.240, IP/Copyright Law 11.723, and sectoral rules (financial supervision by BCRA/CNV, health by ANMAT). Several federal bills to create a horizontal AI framework or an oversight body are pending in the National Congress.
Timeline - major decisions & events
The provincial Subsecretaría de Gobierno Digital approved binding rules for the development and responsible use of AI in provincial public administration, adopting an EU AI Act-style risk classification, mandatory risk assessments, a Provincial Registry of AI Systems, and disclosure when citizens interact with automated systems. It is the first official AI regulation by a jurisdiction in Argentina, issued amid the national government's inaction.
Provincia de Buenos Aires (SINDMA) ↗Mayor Marcelo Matzkin signed Municipal Decree 532/25 appointing chatbot ZARA as 'Director General of Non-Human Citizen Services' with authority to sign binding administrative acts, the first such appointment in Argentina, which prompted legal debate and accelerated provincial regulation.
La Nación ↗A bill submitted to the Chamber of Deputies proposes a legal framework for protecting personal data processed by AI systems, part of several pending national AI bills; none has yet become law.
Digital Policy Alert ↗Published in the Official Gazette, it placed the Interministerial Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence under the Secretariat of Innovation, Science and Technology, jointly coordinated with the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs, to steer national AI policy.
Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina ↗Argentina's data-protection authority (AAIP) released, for public consultation, its 'Guide for Public and Private Entities on Transparency and Personal Data Protection for Responsible AI' under Resolution 161/2023, later issuing a final 2025 version covering algorithmic transparency and the AI lifecycle.
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