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Morena Lawmaker Seeks Single AI Law to Protect Users in Mexico

Designed to protect users through mandated human oversight, the draft focuses on child protections, also preserving space for technological development.

Overview

  • Gabriela Jiménez Godoy is driving a plan in the Cámara de Diputados to merge multiple party proposals into one Ley de Inteligencia Artificial so lawmakers can negotiate a single, coherent framework.
  • The effort centers on user rights by requiring human supervision of automated decisions and notifying people when important choices are made wholly or partly by AI.
  • The draft singles out niñas, niños y adolescentes for special protections because of their early exposure to digital systems and the greater risk they face from opaque algorithms.
  • Lawmakers stress the law must deter misuse and criminal behavior without blocking productive AI uses, and leaders say they are seeking cross-party agreement through the Comisión de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación.
  • The push is framed within the government’s wider science and tech agenda, including collaboration with the commission led by Eruviel Ávila and the new Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones, which could shape enforcement and implementation.