On 28 July 2025, the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation resubmitted the Artificial Intelligence Bill including impact assessment and mitigation obligations to Congress. The Artificial Intelligence Bill requires implementers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems to conduct and periodically update impact assessments before implementation and after substantial modifications, covering risks, data quality, performance, transparency, and human oversight. Systems not classified as high risk are exempt.
On 28 July 2025, the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation resubmitted the Artificial Intelligence Bill including mandatory design requirements for artificial intelligence systems to Congress. The Artificial Intelligence Bill requires artificial intelligence systems to be designed to allow human intervention and oversight, control, auditing and traceability, and to ensure transparency, comprehensibility and user information when interacting with artificial intelligence. It mandates privacy and confidentiality by design, requiring respect for the fundamental right to privacy and protection of personal data in accordance with Colombian law. It requires proportional and risk-based design aligned with the level of autonomy, context of use and potential harm, and requires developers to design systems that respect, protect and promote fundamental rights and human dignity. The Artificial Intelligence Bill further requires non-discriminatory design that respects diversity and inclusion, minimises environmental impact through sustainable design practices, and ensures that artificial intelligence systems are not designed or used to create unjustified barriers to entry, facilitate anticompetitive conduct, or abuse a dominant position. It further requires artificial intelligence controllers to implement mitigation and prevention measures proportionate to system risk to protect human rights and prevent negative social and environmental impacts.
On 28 July 2025, the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation resubmitted the Artificial Intelligence Bill including artificial intelligence authority governance to Congress. The Artificial Intelligence Bill designates the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation as the National Authority for Artificial Intelligence, responsible for guiding implementation, coordinating artificial intelligence governance, adopting guidelines, technical standards and best practices, and issuing binding technical recommendations, including additional requirements for high-risk or prohibited artificial intelligence systems under Article 5. The Artificial Intelligence Bill provides for regulation within twenty-four months and establishes interinstitutional and intersectoral coordination mechanisms aligned with the National Artificial Intelligence Policy (CONPES 4144 of 2025) through the Intersectoral Coordination Committee for Artificial Intelligence. It establishes supervision and continuous monitoring of high-risk and prohibited artificial intelligence systems, creates the National Advisory Council of Experts in Artificial Intelligence, and establishes a National Technical Committee on Regulatory Sandboxes. The Artificial Intelligence Bill provides corrective measures and sanctions applicable to private artificial intelligence controllers and assigns inspection, oversight and control functions to the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce.
On 7 May 2025, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation introduced a draft Artificial Intelligence Bill to Congress including organisational requirements for high-risk artificial intelligence systems. The draft requires high-risk artificial intelligence systems to undergo impact assessments on fundamental rights and data protection before being marketed or used.
On 7 May 2025, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation introduced a draft Artificial Intelligence Bill to Congress including design requirements for artificial intelligence systems. The draft mandates that AI systems be designed to enable human intervention and oversight, including human control, auditability and supervision. It requires design criteria that ensure transparency, explainability, clarity, accessibility and traceability of automated processes and decisions. The draft mandates that AI systems be designed to prevent discrimination, protect privacy, respect human dignity and personal autonomy, and avoid infringements of fundamental rights. It also requires design choices that account for proportionality to risk and context of use, promote social and environmental well-being, support diversity and inclusion, and minimise negative impacts on the environment, ecosystems and natural resources. It also requires AI Controllers to implement mitigation and prevention measures proportionate to the level of risk of the artificial intelligence system, with the aim of protecting human rights and preventing negative impacts on society and the environment throughout the system life cycle.
On 7 May 2025, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation introduced a draft Artificial Intelligence Bill to Congress including artificial intelligence authority governance. The draft designates the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation as the National Authority for Artificial Intelligence, in charge of overseeing compliance and issuing binding technical recommendations. It allows the authority to act against prohibited AI systems that pose unacceptable risks and to require changes to high, medium and limited risk systems when obligations are not met. The draft sets up coordination across public authorities and sectors in line with the National Artificial Intelligence Policy (CONPES 4144 of 2025), establishes ongoing supervision of prohibited and high-risk AI systems, creates the National Advisory Council of Experts in Artificial Intelligence, and gives the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce responsibility for enforcement related to personal data protection, consumer protection and competition.
Last updated: 28/07/2025