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Applied AI in Argentina

Argentina's AI record is being written by its provinces and courts — Santa Fe's AI-monitored prison, Río Negro's anonymised rulings, new AI rules for federal prosecutors.

AI readiness
0.47
Rank 84 of 171 — IMF AI Preparedness Index
On the record
13
entries across 5 industries
Income group
Upper middle income
World Bank classification

Services 56.2% · Industry 22.9% · Agriculture 5.5% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025

Kind
Role
13 entries

Government & Public Sector

9

Río Negro's judiciary now anonymises court rulings with an AI tool it built in-house.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorArgentina7 Sep 2026

Argentina bars federal prosecutors from putting case files into public AI

Procuración General de la Nación (Ministerio Público Fiscal) — Argentina's Attorney General signed Resolution PGN 64/26 on 4 September, setting AI rules for prosecutors and staff across the national Public Prosecutor's Office. Reserved information, live-case material and personal or sensitive data stay out of public AI tools such as ChatGPT until individual use is regulated, while permanent practical AI training and secure in-house tools are ordered. An internal survey beforehand found 90.4% of staff wanted a full training plan.

gentedesalta.com
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorArgentina3 Sep 2026

Santa Fe opens a prison with AI monitoring and facial recognition

Gobierno de la Provincia de Santa Fe — Santa Fe's provincial government opened Penitentiary Unit No. 9 in Recreo, 891-place prison with AI prison surveillance and facial recognition to spot wanted people, visitors and potential risks. Voice identification recognises detainees and approved callers and ends any call automatically if someone else speaks. Governor Maximiliano Pullaro likened it to Lince, Rosario's AI camera system, and called it the country's most technologically secure prison.

Prison officerpuebloregional.com.ar
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorArgentina28 Aug 2026

Chaco makes harmful AI deepfakes punishable by fines and arrest

Gobierno de la Provincia del Chaco — Governor Leandro Zdero of Argentina's Chaco province signed Law 4250-J, an AI deepfake law, on 26 August, putting manipulated or synthetic digital content and bogus social-media profiles into the misdemeanours code. Doing so without informed consent risks up to 60 days' arrest or fines up to 15 minimum salaries, 90 days or 18 if shared; plainly artistic work, parody and public-interest criticism that cannot pass as real are exempt.

infobae.com
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorArgentina2 Jul 2026

Buenos Aires city launches BAX conversational-AI app for public services

Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires — Buenos Aires city government launched BAX, an AI city services app putting cultural activities, information requests, complaints, appointments and procedures in one place. BAX's conversational AI takes text, voice or images, replacing forms and menus scattered across apps and sites.

Citizen-service agentinteligenciaargentina.ar
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorArgentina23 Jun 2026

Río Negro's judiciary switches to AI anonymisation for court rulings

Poder Judicial de Río Negro — The Poder Judicial de Río Negro has brought AI anonymisation of court rulings into its Puma case-management system, ending the manual marking of personal data by staff. Developed by the judiciary's own Área de Informatización de la Gestión Judicial, it scans each document for names, identity documents, CUIL numbers and case-caption details needing protection and proposes an anonymised text every court office can check and adjust. It is optional for most documents but central for rulings due for publication.

Court clerkjusticia.ar
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorArgentina16 Jun 2026

Neuquén gives wildlife wardens AI drones against poaching

Gobierno de la Provincia del Neuquén (Dirección de Fauna) — Neuquén's governor Rolando Figueroa says the province's wildlife wardens will get 16 AI anti-poaching drones with thermal cameras from 1 July to fight illegal fishing and hunting. They also receive 60 tablets for digital enforcement records and Starlink antennas for remote areas, working jointly with the provincial police.

Wildlife wardenweekend.perfil.com
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorArgentina7 May 2026

Neuquén puts AI agents into consumer-protection enquiries

Gobierno de la Provincia del Neuquén — Neuquén's provincial government runs an AI consumer protection chatbot answering consumers day and night. A panel of AI agents reads each query, checks procedural requirements and legal guidance, and replies with step-by-step instructions.

Consumer-protection officernoticiasnqn.com.ar
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorArgentina2 Feb 2026

Buenos Aires tax agency launches AI system to find undeclared buildings

Agencia de Recaudación de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (ARBA) — Buenos Aires province's tax agency ARBA launched M2, AI property tax detection combining high-resolution satellite imagery, drone surveys and AI models to find undeclared buildings and improvements. Detection, analysis, notification and the taxpayer's reply share one digital environment, and ARBA says the automated monitoring greatly widens its capacity to regularise such cases.

Property-tax inspectorsemanarioactualidad.com.ar
Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorArgentina26 Jan 2026

Escobar says AI cut procurement paperwork time by up to 98%

Municipalidad de Escobar — Escobar, in Buenos Aires province, says its Ethix AI procurement platform cut administrative times up to 98% and saved over 700 specialised technical hours from August to December 2025. Used in purchasing and supplies, the procurement assistant backed staff on operational queries, drafting, checks and analysis without altering procurement rules; no independent evaluation is published.

eldiadeescobar.com.ar

Education & Training

1

The University of Buenos Aires' economics faculty runs its own AI agent inside its virtual classroom.

DeploymentEducation & TrainingArgentina27 Jun 2026

UBA economics faculty rolls out own AI platform to 2,000 students

Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires — The University of Buenos Aires' Faculty of Economic Sciences approved AI rules for teaching, learning and assessment and began running its own AI teaching assistant inside the virtual classroom, loaded with each chair's reading list. The in-house assistant already serves 40 subjects across 184 courses, about 2,000 students.

University lecturerlanacion.com.ar

Finance & Insurance

1

Traffic sent to Argentine banks by AI assistants rose 294% between January and July 2026.

Evidence of adoptionFinance & InsuranceArgentina27 Aug 2026

AI assistants drive a surge of traffic to Latin American banks

Similarweb — Similarweb data shows AI-referred traffic to Latin American banks rising sharply between January and July 2026, from +128% in Mexico to +294% in Peru and Argentina. Santander Argentina saw the region's biggest jump; AI assistants otherwise sent most visitors to BCP in Peru, Bancolombia in Colombia, BancoEstado in Chile and Banamex in Mexico.

anda.cl

Healthcare & Life Sciences

1

Río Negro says it will pilot Gemini-based triage in two hospital emergency departments.

DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesArgentina15 Mar 2026

Río Negro to pilot Gemini-based AI triage in two hospital A&Es

Ministerio de Salud de Río Negro — Río Negro's provincial health ministry will pilot SAP-RN, a Google Gemini tool for AI emergency triage, for 90 days in Viedma and Cipolletti hospitals. The priority-care system will also track waiting times, resolved cases and 72-hour re-attendance to plan emergency staffing, with clinical judgement keeping the final word.

Emergency triage nurserionegro.com.ar
Latest on the record
  • RegulationArgentina bars federal prosecutors from putting case files into public AIGovernment & Public Sector7 Sep 2026gentedesalta.com
  • DeploymentSanta Fe opens a prison with AI monitoring and facial recognitionGovernment & Public Sector3 Sep 2026puebloregional.com.ar
  • RegulationChaco makes harmful AI deepfakes punishable by fines and arrestGovernment & Public Sector28 Aug 2026infobae.com
  • Evidence of adoptionAI assistants drive a surge of traffic to Latin American banksFinance & Insurance27 Aug 2026anda.cl
Latin America & Caribbean
Argentina0.47Brazil0.50Colombia0.49Mexico0.53Chile0.59Peru0.49Bolivia—Panama0.50Uruguay0.55Bermuda—Costa Rica0.54Bahamas—Dominican Republic0.47El Salvador0.39Barbados—Jamaica—Venezuela—
Method and sources

Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.

The record is maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI: entries are added as they are found and verified, not on a schedule, and nothing is published without an open source behind it. It currently holds 1114 entries across 249 countries.