The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

Developed with the assistance of Chat GPT-4, this bill seeks to establish a comprehensive national framework to regulate the development, implementation and use of AI. It sets general principles, baseline definitions (AI, agents, developers, responsibility, bias, explainability, transparency), and creates registration and supervision obligations for AI systems through a dedicated Autoridad Reguladora de Inteligencia Artificial (ARIA).

Proposed in October 2023, this comprehensive bill seeks to regulate and promote ethical, transparent, and responsible AI use, research, and development in Costa Rica. It establishes governance, risk management, and human rights safeguards.

Proposed in August 2024, this bill seeks to establish a national framework for the responsible use, development and regulation of AI systems. The bill was introduced to ensure ethical, transparent, and secure AI adoption. It applies to public and private sectors, mandates transparency, risk-based oversight, and prohibits harmful practices like subliminal manipulation and unauthorized use of personal data or likeness.

An AI co-operation declaration signed in 2020 seeks to explore the possibilities of establishing a national laboratory in Costa Rica.

The Central Administration is ordered and the Decentralized Administration is instructed to take the necessary technical and financial measures that allow them to plan, specify and implement technological solutions in accordance with the national reality.

A directive for the project formulation, articulation of actions, inter-institutional collaboration, and transversal generation of digital government capacity.

Guidelines to rationalize the use of public resources, especially those destined to the acquisition of electronic equipment, as well as those aimed at the development of computer programs and / or developments of computer systems to support its management.

This guideline is meant to implement accessible websites in the Costa Rican public sector.

The optimization of processes and their interoperability, through the construction and implementation of new solutions that facilitate and expedite procedures and services.

This Strategy helps Costa Rica to build on and benefit from two major developments shaping productive processes and the quality of life of persons: the fourth industrial revolution and knowledge societies.

The optimization of processes through the construction and implementation of new solutions that facilitate and expedite procedures and services.

An AI co-operation declaration signed in 2020 seeks to explore the possibilities of establishing a national laboratory in Costa Rica.

The Central Administration is ordered and the Decentralized Administration is instructed to take the necessary technical and financial measures that allow them to plan, specify and implement technological solutions in accordance with the national reality.

A directive for the project formulation, articulation of actions, inter-institutional collaboration, and transversal generation of digital government capacity.

Guidelines to rationalize the use of public resources, especially those destined to the acquisition of electronic equipment, as well as those aimed at the development of computer programs and / or developments of computer systems to support its management.

This guideline is meant to implement accessible websites in the Costa Rican public sector.

This Strategy promotes public policy actions to improve people's quality of life through the implementation of secure and resilient digital solutions at the service of citizens and all sectors of society with a perspective of co-creation and collaboration.

This Strategy promotes public policy actions to improve people's quality of life through the implementation of secure and resilient digital solutions at the service of citizens and all sectors of society with a perspective of co-creation and collaboration

Transform and make more efficient and effective the cross-cutting services that public institutions provide to citizens and businesses, through the intensive use of information and communication technologies.

The Artificial Intelligence chapter aims to provide a comprehensive framework for the adoption and governance of artificial intelligence in the country. These guidelines have been developed in alignment with the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (ENIA) and are based on fundamental principles such as peace, human dignity, transparency, equity, responsibility, sustainability, and cybersecurity.