Colombia: Passed Law (059/23) on Public Policy Guidelines for AI including AI Authority

On 14 November 2023, the Colombian Senate passed a law establishing public policy guidelines for the development, use, and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (059/23). The law sets out principles for AI, including human authority, common good, cooperation, safe design, prevalence of human intelligence, and preventive research. It also establishes the Data Processing and Artificial Intelligence Developments Commission, which is tasked with endorsing institutional requests on AI developments and implementation, drafting and disseminating technical regulations for AI, advising the Congress on AI-related initiatives, proposing AI technological initiatives in public management and for economic, social, and environmental development, and setting its own rules of procedure.