Argentina - AI Program Creation (14/25)

Overview

Resolución PGN 14/25 (Buenos Aires, 14 May 2025) formally creates the Programa de Inteligencia Artificial for the Ministerio Público Fiscal (MPF). The text explains the institutional rationale—rising volumes of digital information, prior digitization efforts (Coirón, SINOPE) and the opportunity to improve operational efficiency—while stressing legal, ethical and technical constraints. The Program is charged with designing strategy, issuing technical and ethical standards, receiving and evaluating project proposals and implementing monitoring, training and inter-institutional cooperation. The resolution expressly draws on international instruments and domestic guidelines, including the UNESCO ethics recommendation and the EU and Council of Europe frameworks. The full text is available from the MPF archive (MPF – Resolución PGN 14/25 (PDF)) and the MPF news page (MPF news – IA institutional survey).

Definitions

The resolution adopts working definitions aligned with major international instruments: "intelligence artificial" is defined as technologies and algorithmic/mathematical models that process data to produce inferences, predictions, recommendations, decisions or content that may affect physical or digital environments with varying levels of autonomy and adaptability. It distinguishes generative AI platforms (text, image or video generators) for which additional traceability and authenticity concerns apply, and situates AI as including both statistical/ML models and more complex adaptive systems. The Program is defined as a cross-cutting institutional structure (not an external regulatory agency) tasked with coordination, standard-setting, evaluation and capacity-building. Key operational concepts used throughout the instrument are: "control human significant" (meaningful human oversight), "risk-based approach" (classification of systems by potential harm to rights/interests), "traceability" (audit logs and data provenance) and "data protection" (compliance with Argentina’s personal data protection framework).

Governance and Institutional Framework

Articles II and III of Resolution PGN 14/25 assign the Secretaría de Coordinación Institucional primary responsibility for developing, coordinating, and monitoring the Program, in conjunction with the Secretaría Disciplinaria y Técnica and the Secretaría de Administración y Recursos Humanos. Under the operational framework elaborated in Resolution PGN 64/2026, the Secretaría de Coordinación Institucional and the AI Program evaluate proposed AI deployments for technical and legal feasibility, while the Unidad de Auditoría Interna of the Procuración General de la Nación conducts ex-post internal audits. Disciplinary oversight remains under the jurisdiction of the Secretaría Disciplinaria y Técnica.

Key Focus Areas

The Program’s mandated functions (Resolution clauses III a–i) identify several focus areas. First, institutional strategy and planning to integrate AI across MPF missions. Second, technical and ethical standard-setting for design, acquisition, implementation and evaluation. Third, needs assessment and prioritization of use cases, including administrative management, investigative analytics, pattern detection and citizen-facing services. Fourth, project intake and review: dependencies are invited to submit projects for analysis under criteria established by the Program. Fifth, creation of protocols and good-practice guides to operationalize human oversight, data governance, explainability, testing and documentation. Sixth, monitoring and evaluation: lifecycle supervision, outcome evaluation and impact assessment. Seventh, capacity-building: training programs for prosecutors, technical staff and administrators. Eighth, collaboration: the Program must cultivate ties with national actors (e.g., Agencia de Acceso a la Información Pública, Subsecretaría de Tecnologías) and international bodies (UNESCO, OECD), as well as academia, civil society and private-sector partners. These focus areas reflect an integrated governance posture: combining policy, technical standards, risk mitigation and transparency measures to ensure AI serves institutional objectives while protecting rights.

Implementation Framework

Operationalization depends on internal MPF procedures. The Program will develop criteria to evaluate project proposals, including risk classification (impact on rights and institutional interests), data quality and provenance, privacy compliance, security and resilience, human-in-the-loop design and auditability. Procurement and contracting of AI systems must integrate technical specifications, obligations for vendors to provide documentation, and contractual clauses addressing data protection and security. The resolution invites dependencies to present proposals and authorizes the Program to propose standardized protocols and templates for tendering, testing and deployment. Implementation will also require internal interoperability (e.g., with Coirón and SINOPE), secure data-sharing agreements, and alignment with national guidance from the Subsecretaría de Tecnologías de Información and the Agencia de Acceso a la Información Pública. Where systems implicate personal data, the Program must ensure compliance with Law No. 25.326 (Personal Data Protection) and internal MPF data policies.

Monitoring and Evaluation

The Program has explicit monitoring, follow-up, and evaluation duties under Article III(g) of Resolution PGN 14/25. In August 2025, the MPF launched an institutional survey on AI knowledge and usage based on a UNESCO model. On 25 August 2026, the MPF published the results of this survey, covering 2,339 staff members (around 40% of the workforce). The empirical findings informed the mandatory institutional guidelines issued on 4 September 2026 under Resolution PGN 64/2026, which establish ongoing supervision by the Program and ex-post compliance auditing by the Unidad de Auditoría Interna of the Procuración General de la Nación.

Penalties, Liability, and Appeals

The resolution itself does not prescribe new sanctions but locates oversight and disciplinary involvement within existing MPF frameworks; the Secretariats Disciplinaria and Technical will intervene according to their competencies. Consequently, legal and administrative liability, disciplinary sanctions and appeals will be applied under preexisting statutes and MPF internal rules (the resolution cites Law No. 27.148 and other resolutions as legal bases). Where projects contravene data protection obligations or cause rights violations, established administrative or disciplinary procedures may apply; civil or criminal liability would proceed according to applicable national legislation. The Program’s manuals and procurement templates are expected to embed contractual remedies and vendor obligations to allocate operational risk and support remediation.

Relationship to Other Instruments

The resolution cross-references a range of national and international guidance: UNESCO’s AI ethics recommendation and judicial AI toolkit; the OECD AI Recommendation; the EU AI legislative framework and Council of Europe instruments. Domestically, it builds on MPF prior resolutions (e.g., Coirón adoption: PGN 320/2017, mandatory electronic filing: PGN 22/2020) and national guidance on trustworthy AI issued by the Subsecretaría de Tecnologías de Información and the Agencia de Acceso a la Información Pública. The Program is explicitly designed to harmonize MPF practice with these instruments while remaining an internal coordination mechanism for the MPF's operational needs.

International Alignment

The Resolution acknowledges and seeks alignment with international normative developments: UNESCO (ethics recommendation, judicial toolkit), OECD (AI principles), EU Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and the Union’s AI law) and Council of Europe instruments on AI, rights and the rule of law. It also anticipates cooperation agreements (e.g., with UNESCO) to support training and ethical advisory services. International alignment aims to adopt principles such as human oversight, non-discrimination, privacy protection, transparency, technical robustness and accountability and to benefit from comparative testing frameworks and capacity-building programs.

Implementation Timeline

Promulgation of Resolución PGN 14/25: 14 May 2025. Institutional baseline survey launched: 11 August 2025 (survey ran through 13 September 2025). Publication of internal AI survey results: 25 August 2026. Approval of mandatory institutional AI guidelines via Resolución PGN 64/2026: 4 September 2026.

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