AI NATIONAL POLICY
Política Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial
Start date :2019
End date :
Name of responsible governmental body :
- Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation (Minscience;Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación)
Description :
- The Chilean AI Policy 2021-2030 covers three pillars: (1) enabling factors, (2) development and adoption of AI (3) ethics, regulatory aspects and socio-economic impacts.
Objectives:
- To empower citizens in the development and application of AI tools, and encourage their participation in the debate on their legal, ethical, social and economic consequences.
- To develop AI-enabling factors which encompass development of human capital, technological infrastructure, and data availability.
- To foster the use and development of AI which encompasses research, development, innovation, and entrepeneurship based on AI systems. It also foster adoption both in the private and the public sector.
- To discuss and reach consensus about ethics, standards, cybersecurity and regulation between the private and public sectors for a human-centered development and use of AI. This includes topics such as privacy, transparency, responsibility, environmental issues, gender-gap, automation impacts, among others.
OECD AI principle adressed:
- Fostering a digital ecosystem for AI
- Providing an enabling policy environment for AI
- Building human capacity and preparing for labour market transition
Relevant policy area covered:
- Economy
- Education
- Employment
- Public governance
- Social and welfare issues
Related to a theme:
Direct beneficiaries:
- Higher education institutes
- Public research institutes
- Private research and development lab
- Established researchers
- Postdocs and other early-career researchers
- Undergraduate and master students
- Secondary education students
- PhD students
- Teachers
- Firms of any size
- Firms of any age
- Incubators, accelerators, hubs
- Technology transfer offices
- Industry associations
- Academic societies / academies
- National government
- Labour force in general
- Civil society
Estimated budget expenditure (range per year):
- Less than 1M
Background including shifts in the policy initiative:
- The Policy was originally due to launch in April 2020, but due to the social riots in Chile and COVID-19, it has been postponed to early 2021. However, this extension made a broad participation process possible.
The Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation is leading a working plan to launch a national AI policy and action plan in early 2021.
The Chilean AI Policy will contain the strategic alignments that the country has to follow to achieve the following objective: empower the Chilean population in the usage and development of AI tools and participate actively in the legal, ethical, social and economic consequences of AI.
Policy initiative is a structural reform:
- No
Evaluated:
- No
Link to evaluation or reports:
- N.A
Funding from the private sector:
- No
Type of evaluation:
- N.A
Evaluation provides input to:
- N.A
Evaluation performed by:
- N.A
Policy instruments :
National strategies, agendas and plans
- Type : National strategies, agendas and plans
- Name in English :
- Country : Chile
- Public access URL : https://minciencia.gob.cl/uploads/filer_public/bc/38/bc389daf-4514-4306-867c-760ae7686e2c/documento_politica_ia_digital_.pdf
- Strategy mainly prioritises : AI policy governance (e.g. vertical and horizontal coordination, evaluation) | Business innovation and innovative entrepreneurship | Access to finance for innovation (e.g. venture capital, business angels, financial markets) | Education and skills | Specific areas/sectors (e.g. new industrial policy, R&D targets for clean tech) | Clusters and regional support (including regional/local R&D investments) | Societal challenges (e.g. social inclusiveness); environmental challenges (e.g. sustainability)
- - Quantifiable target, Deadline : Societal challenges (e.g. social inclusiveness); environmental challenges (e.g. sustainability): "Adoption in Key Challenges: Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change with AI", "AI for Sustainable Development"
- Societal challenge(s) emphasised : Inclusiveness (e.g. inequality, job insecurity) | Environmental sustainability | Other
- - Other : Technological revolution and its impacts
- Implementation mechanism : None
Public consultations of stakeholders or experts
- Type : Public consultations of stakeholders or experts
- Name in English :
- Country : Chile
Last updated : Nov 23, 2023
