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Chile's AI is in the state's own hands first — a Treasury voice agent on tax-season calls, more than 5,000 officials trained — under a national policy updated in 2024.

AI readiness
0.59
Rank 43 of 171 — IMF AI Preparedness Index
On the record
10
entries across 5 industries
National programme
2024
Política Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial
National programme

Política Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial

Announced 2024. Its pillars are enabling factors, development and adoption, governance and ethics.

Services 55.5% · Industry 31.4% · Agriculture 3.5% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025

Kind
Role
10 entries

Government & Public Sector

5

The Treasury has put an AI voice agent on tax-season calls, and a public network now verifies government AI independently.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorChile31 Aug 2026

Chile builds a network to independently verify public-sector AI

Red de Integridad y Estado Abierto / ECLAC — Chile's Red de Integridad y Estado Abierto and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean are forming a network for independent public-sector AI oversight. Public institutions will first register the AI systems they run and self-assess against ECLAC's standard, before verification and oversight; the Comptroller General alone keeps audit powers, and algorithmic transparency leads the agenda.

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Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorChile13 Aug 2026

Chile trains more than 5,000 public officials in AI

Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación — Chile's science ministry has put over 5,000 public officials through AI training via Stack Público and built TAM-GPT, a Latin American language model, with the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Six priorities for 2026-2030 target about 100 AI pilots in the state, some one million people trained and reconversion for 100,000 workers.

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DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorChile23 Jul 2026

Chile's Treasury puts an AI voice agent on tax-season calls

Tesorería General de la República — Chile's Tesorería General de la República put an AI voice agent built with CGS Nexus on tax-query calls during Operación Renta, trained on 50-plus enquiry types. It served over 43,000 people and settled about 60% of calls alone, passing complex cases to staff, the Treasury says; no independent evaluation is published.

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DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorChile17 Apr 2026

Chile's energy regulator uses AI to catch uncertified electrical imports

Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustibles (SEC) — Chile's electricity and fuels regulator, the SEC, uses AI import inspection to catch uncertified electrical products entering the country sooner. Reading import data, raising alerts and ranking controls by risk, the tools lifted the certified share from 88% to 95% and cut months-long detection times, the regulator says. An SEC AI assistant also answered over 60% of queries during electricity-subsidy applications.

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DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorChile13 Jan 2026

Chilean customs puts AI-equipped scanner truck into service in Iquique

Servicio Nacional de Aduanas de Chile — Chile's customs service has started operating an AI cargo scanning truck at the Iquique International Terminal in Tarapacá. The scanner truck is meant to bolster regional checks against drug trafficking and smuggling.

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Manufacturing, Energy & Resources

2

Codelco's maintenance chief says AI lifted the copper company's production by 40%.

Evidence of impactManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesChile9 Sep 2026

Codelco maintenance chief says AI lifted production by 40%

Codelco — Iván Tobar, corporate maintenance manager at Codelco, Chile's state copper company, told a University of Santiago audience on 8 September AI in copper mining lifted production 40% and mineral recovery over 15% as technology use grew. The report does not identify the operations or period behind the figures, and no independent evaluation is published.

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Evidence of impactManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesChile2 Apr 2026

AI cameras cut risky worker–machine contact 90% at El Teniente

Codelco División El Teniente — Codelco's El Teniente division says AI workplace safety video analytics using 40 cameras has cut risky equipment–people interactions by 90% in monitored mine workshops. Specialists validate its automatic alerts; the system grew gradually from a workshop pilot in early 2024, and no independent evaluation is published.

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Business Operations

1

SONDA reports that 88% of Chilean companies now use AI.

Evidence of adoptionBusiness OperationsChile24 Aug 2026

88% of Chilean companies now use AI, SONDA finds

SONDA — SONDA's Tech Trends study puts some degree of AI adoption among Chilean companies at 88%, up from 16% in its previous edition. Of those, 40% are exploring or piloting, 30% apply it to some processes, 13% treat it as a strategic pillar and 5% have woven it through the whole operation. SONDA Chile general manager Javier Larenas warns of pilots that never scale; 53% have only general AI guidelines, and the sample size is unpublished.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences

1

Hospital Biprovincial Quillota Petorca schedules its operating theatres with SITGEQ, aiming to cut cancelled operations and waiting lists.

DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesChile20 Jul 2026

Quillota hospital starts an AI surgical-management system in its theatres

Hospital Biprovincial Quillota Petorca — Hospital Biprovincial Quillota Petorca began SITGEQ, AI surgical management with real-time dashboards, in pre-surgery and, from 27 July, its operating theatres. GesNova Salud's system gathers clinical records, waiting-list status, theatre timetables and patient tests so teams follow each case from surgical request to operation. Hospital director Eduardo Lara Hernández highlights its data analytics and AI; the goals are better theatre use, fewer cancellations and shorter public-network surgical waiting lists. Two of the Viña del Mar Quillota Petorca health service's three high-complexity hospitals now use it.

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Latest on the record
  • Evidence of impactCodelco maintenance chief says AI lifted production by 40%Manufacturing, Energy & Resources9 Sep 2026elboyaldia.cl
  • RegulationChile builds a network to independently verify public-sector AIGovernment & Public Sector31 Aug 2026linaresenlinea.cl
  • Evidence of adoption88% of Chilean companies now use AI, SONDA findsBusiness Operations24 Aug 2026gerencia.cl
  • Evidence of adoptionChile trains more than 5,000 public officials in AIGovernment & Public Sector13 Aug 2026latercera.com
  • DeploymentChile's Treasury puts an AI voice agent on tax-season callsGovernment & Public Sector23 Jul 2026tvn.cl
Latin America & Caribbean
Chile0.59Brazil0.50Argentina0.47Colombia0.49Mexico0.53Peru0.49Bolivia—Panama0.50Uruguay0.55Bermuda—Costa Rica0.54Bahamas—Dominican Republic0.47El Salvador0.39Barbados—Jamaica—Venezuela—
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