AI regulation in Bolivia (2026)

Proyecto de Ley N° 178/2024-2025 was approved by Bolivia's Senate on 22 October 2025 and forwarded to the Chamber of Deputies. As of May 2026 it had not been promulgated; February 2026 legal analyses were still debating its constitutional scope.

The bill would create the Autoridad de Regulación de la Inteligencia Artificial (ARIA) as a new decentralised body with functional autonomy to certify AI systems, set ethical and technical standards, supervise compliance, and impose administrative sanctions.

Under the bill, AGETIC would be required to elaborate a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy within 180 days of the law's enactment. No official national AI strategy has been published as of the research date.

The bill enshrines 12 governing principles including algorithmic transparency, non-discrimination, personal data protection, technological sovereignty, and human dignity. Seven high-risk practices are explicitly banned, including subliminal manipulation, mass facial recognition without a judicial order, and discriminatory algorithmic profiling.

The proposed law would apply to any natural or legal person — public or private — that develops, provides, uses, or deploys AI systems in Bolivia or whose systems produce effects within Bolivian territory, covering generative AI models, machine learning, and autonomous decision-making algorithms.

Bolivia's broader digital governance remains fragmented. The AGETIC 2025 public accountability report and La Paz's Open Government Action Plan 2025–2026 incorporate AI-adjacent e-government elements but no unified national AI policy framework is operative pending the law.