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Santiago Declaration to Promote Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Declaración de Santiago: Para promover una inteligencia artificial ética en América Latina y el Caribe

Record INT-12

Issued by
Ministerial and High Authorities Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean on the Ethics of AI (hosted by Chile, with UNESCO and CAF support)
Jurisdiction
Santiago ministerial summit on AI (2023)
Level · region
International · Latin America & Caribbean
Published / adopted
2023-10-24
Language
Spanish

Summary

Declaration of ministers and high authorities of Latin America and the Caribbean that takes the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI as its reference. It calls for policies, strategies and institutional frameworks for the safe, ethical and responsible design, development and use of AI with a human-rights approach, and the signatories agree to analyse whether new legal frameworks are needed, balancing ex ante regulation of AI risks with innovation. It cites due diligence and impact assessment, human oversight and determination, transparency, monitoring of effects on workers and data governance, and sets up a Chile-led working group towards a regional intergovernmental AI council.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Spanish text.

Safety topics

international cooperationaccountability & liabilityhuman oversighttransparency & labelling

Status notes

Adopted by the ministers and high authorities meeting in Santiago on 23 and 24 October 2023, at the Forum on the Ethics of AI in Latin America and the Caribbean and the ministerial summit held with it; Chile's Ministry of Science and Ministry of Foreign Affairs prepared the meeting, with technical and financial support from UNESCO and CAF. The text does not list its signatories; InvestChile, Chile's public investment promotion agency, says 20 countries signed it at La Moneda Palace, naming Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chile was asked to convene the working group in the first half of 2024. The second summit, in Montevideo on 3 and 4 October 2024, adopted the Declaration of Montevideo (INT-17), which thanks Chile for leading the working group and entrusts Uruguay with continuing its work.

Sources

Open the official source https://minciencia.gob.cl/uploads/filer_public/40/2a/402a35a0-1222-4dab-b090-5c81bbf34237/declaracion_de_santiago.pdf

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 16:29:57 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/INT-12/2026-10-11/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-11 13:57:37 UTC
SHA-256 b589e5c97527b23919b51c58dcb37bea3d3c7dcdcbe5f58bb43c7f2623f44a68

Verification

A
The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched
Stored: the declaration's Spanish text (4 pages) on the Chilean Ministry of Science's site, headed with the summit, Santiago and 23–24 October 2023; in this run also InvestChile's post of 25 October 2023 and the English text of the Declaration of Montevideo on gub.uy (the source of INT-17). The text confirms the original title, the summit, the date range, the proclamations and the decisions, but names no signatories and no adoption day; date_published is the closing day of the two-day summit. The 20 signatory countries rest on InvestChile's post, and the follow-up at Montevideo on the Declaration of Montevideo. No English text of the declaration by the issuers or a government was found; the English title is a rendering, the same one InvestChile uses.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 10 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — the official text is Spanish and the record had no english_version; no English text of the declaration by the issuers or a government was found (InvestChile's post gives only an English title), so 'none found'2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-17notes: Adopted at the summit in Santiago, 23–24 Oct 2023. The text does not list signat → Adopted by the ministers and high authorities meeting in Santiago on 23 and 24 O — rewritten: the forum, the preparing ministries and the UNESCO and CAF support from the text; the 20 signatory countries from InvestChile and the Montevideo follow-up from the Declaration of Montevideo (both stored in this run); the hedged sentence 'reportedly adopted a Montevideo Declaration' replaced, now that INT-17 holds that declaration2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["international cooperation", "accountability & liability"] → ["international cooperation", "accountability & liability", "human oversight", " — 'human oversight' added for 'la supervisión y decisión humana' (Proclamamos 2 and preamble 9) and 'transparency & labelling' for 'la transparencia y la explicabilidad' and 'promover la transparencia en las operaciones de IA' (Proclamamos 2 and 7)2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  4. 2026-10-17summary: Regional ministerial commitment to safe, ethical and responsible AI policies gro → Declaration of ministers and high authorities of Latin America and the Caribbean — rewritten from the Spanish text: Proclamamos 1 (policies, strategies and institutional frameworks with a human-rights approach), 2 (analysis of new legal frameworks, principles including 'la supervisión y decisión humana' and 'la transparencia y la explicabilidad', and the balance between ex ante regulatory intervention on AI risks and innovation), 5 (monitoring the impact on workers), 7 (transparency in AI operations), 10 (data governance), preamble point 11 (due diligence and assessment) and the decisions (working group led by Chile)2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Chile National AI Policy 2024 Chile · Published (non-binding, current)

Uruguay AI Strategy 2024–2030 Uruguay · Published (non-binding, current)

Montevideo Declaration Montevideo ministerial summit on AI (2024) · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Ministerial and High Authorities Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean on the Ethics of AI (hosted by Chile, with UNESCO and CAF support). Santiago Declaration to Promote Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Latin America and the Caribbean. 2023-10-24. https://minciencia.gob.cl/uploads/filer_public/40/2a/402a35a0-1222-4dab-b090-5c81bbf34237/declaracion_de_santiago.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/INT-12/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 13:57:37 UTC, SHA-256 b589e5c97527b23919b51c58dcb37bea3d3c7dcdcbe5f58bb43c7f2623f44a68. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record INT-12.

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