# AI rules in Chile

Chile's EU-style AI bill passed the Chamber in Oct 2025 but is being rewritten as a lighter enabling law in the Senate; a new data law with automated-decision rights takes effect 1 Dec 2026.

- **Approach:** Voluntary principles
- **Key bodies:** Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, Personal Data Protection Agency (from Dec 2026)
- **Last reviewed:** 4 Oct 2026

## Rules (2)
- [Chile AI Bill](https://wheresthe.ai/rule/cl-ai-systems-bill-16821-19/index.md): Proposed, Bill. EU-style risk-based bill regulating uses of AI systems that the Chamber of Deputies approved on 13 Oct 2025; it is now before the Senate's Future Challenges committee. In 2026 the Executive announced it would replace the text with a lighter 'enabling law' focused on sandboxes, standards and ex-post enforcement.
- [Chile data protection law (automated decisions)](https://wheresthe.ai/rule/cl-law-21719-data-protection-automated-decisions/index.md): Enacted, not yet in force, Law, effective 1 Dec 2026. New GDPR-style data protection law; Article 8 bis gives individuals the right to object to and not be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that produce legal or similarly significant effects, with exceptions for contracts, express consent or law, and requires safeguards including information, explanation, human intervention and the right to contest. Applies to all controllers processing personal data in Chile.

## Upcoming deadlines
- 1 Dec 2026: Law 21.719 enters into force, including the right not to be subject to solely automated decisions ([Chile data protection law (automated decisions)](https://wheresthe.ai/rule/cl-law-21719-data-protection-automated-decisions/index.md))

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