# El Salvador

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: El Salvador
- **ISO code**: SV
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Americas / Central America

## In brief

El Salvador has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, 1 of them binding and 1 in force. El Salvador enacted a Law for the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in February 2025, one of the first AI-specific laws in Latin America, creating an Agency for AI (ANIA) and liability safe harbours for developers acting in good faith.

## Overview

El Salvador enacted a Law for the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in February 2025, one of the first AI-specific laws in Latin America, creating an Agency for AI (ANIA) and liability safe harbours for developers acting in good faith. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems. This record exists so that coverage is complete and honest: it will be expanded when an official AI instrument is published or a reviewer adds one with its source.

## Regulatory status

El Salvador enacted a Law for the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in February 2025, one of the first AI-specific laws in Latin America, creating an Agency for AI (ANIA) and liability safe harbours for developers acting in good faith. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: Law for the Promotion of AI and Emerging Technologies. Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

## Regulators

- Asamblea Legislativa — Official government portal; AI policy lead not yet identified — https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Treat the absence of an AI-specific instrument as a gap in our records, not as legal certainty; check the government portal and regulator sites linked here.

## Official sources

- Asamblea Legislativa — Government of El Salvador — https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/
- Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide (country table) — UNCTAD — https://unctad.org/page/data-protection-and-privacy-legislation-worldwide

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Ley para el Fomento de la Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnologías Emergentes (Decreto Legislativo, febrero de 2025)** — Act / statute, In force, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/el-salvador-ai-promotion-law-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/el-salvador-ai-promotion-law-2025.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/el-salvador
- **Official source**: https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/
- **Source document**: Asamblea Legislativa
- **Published by**: Government of El Salvador
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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