Artificial Intelligence · Haiti
AI regulation in Haiti (2026)
Haiti shaded by its artificial intelligence status
Haiti has no dedicated artificial intelligence legislation, national AI strategy, or formal regulatory guidelines as of May 2026. The country's severe political instability and ongoing security crisis have precluded AI-specific policymaking; AI governance remains entirely absent from the formal legal framework. Nascent capacity-building efforts—an IDB technical-cooperation grant (ProAI, approved June 2025) and a proposed Bank of the Republic of Haiti AI Fund—signal intent to eventually develop policy, but no binding instrument has been enacted or formally proposed.
Key points
Multiple authoritative trackers—including the OECD.AI Policy Navigator and the AI Policy Portal—list no national AI strategy, policy initiative, or proposed legislation for Haiti. The country's legal codes date largely to the 19th century and have seen minimal technology-specific updates.
Law No. 172-13 on the Comprehensive Protection of Personal Data and a 2018 implementing decree (Le Moniteur #87) establish baseline personal-data rights and an Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, providing the only existing legal instrument that could incidentally constrain some AI data-processing activities.
The Inter-American Development Bank approved a USD 300,000 non-reimbursable technical-cooperation grant (project HA-T1339, ProAI) in June 2025 to train digital professionals, private-sector actors, and government agents in AI and to help Haiti develop the policy and legal frameworks needed to regulate AI—explicitly acknowledging the current regulatory vacuum.
In mid-2025 the Bank of the Republic of Haiti announced a policy to create a dedicated Artificial Intelligence Fund aimed at developing the AI sector in Haiti. This is a financial instrument, not a regulatory framework, and no implementing legislation has been publicly reported.
Across the Caribbean, AI-specific laws and regulations remain in early stages. Regional bodies such as ECLAC and the IDB have published readiness guides, but no binding Caribbean-wide AI instrument applies to Haiti. Haiti is not a signatory to any multilateral AI governance framework.
Haiti's ongoing governance crisis—including the absence of a functioning parliament and persistent security instability—has effectively halted non-emergency legislative activity, making near-term enactment of AI-specific legislation highly unlikely without a significant change in political conditions.
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