Designing artificial intelligence policy: Comparing design spaces in Latin America

Abstract

AbstractGovernments are designing policies for artificial intelligence to facilitate the digital transformation and respond to the diverse ethical and regulatory challenges that emerge with the penetration of this technology in society. This article aims to analyze the policy design dynamics focusing on national strategies for artificial intelligence in Latin America. It starts from the premise that different dynamics of political regimes and governance modes shape different design spaces, which create action situations that assign different dynamics of policy design. The article compares national strategies for artificial intelligence in Latin America, through a documentary analysis of the national strategies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay, to identify the characteristics and dynamics of the design spaces applied to Artificial Intelligence policies in Latin America. The research findings indicate that the dynamics between political regimes and governance modes in Latin American countries delimit different outcomes for Artificial Intelligence policy.