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Montevideo summit adopts a regional AI governance roadmap for Latin America

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Source: Agesic (Uruguay)Also reported by Agesic (Uruguay)

The second ministerial summit on AI ethics for Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Montevideo on 3 and 4 October 2024 by Uruguay’s Agesic with UNESCO and CAF, adopted the Montevideo Declaration. It approves a regional roadmap with five priority areas: governance and regulation, talent and work, vulnerable groups, environment and climate, and infrastructure. It makes the regional AI ethics working group permanent and sets yearly ministerial summits to track the roadmap.

Why it matters

Latin American governments gained a standing body and a shared roadmap for AI rules, which national bills in Chile, Brazil and Peru can be measured against.

When
4 Oct 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0186
Where
International, Uruguay
Who
UNESCO, CAF, Agesic

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Agesic (Uruguay) and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Agesic (Uruguay)

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Documents the source offers: document 1 (PDF), document 2 (PDF), document 3 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0186: “Montevideo summit adopts a regional AI governance roadmap for Latin America.” wheresthe.ai, 4 Oct 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-montevideo-declaration-ai-roadmap-2024-10/ (source: Agesic (Uruguay)).

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