EcuadorOrganic Law for the Development, Ethical Use and Governance of Artificial Intelligence (bill)
Proyecto de Ley Orgánica para el Desarrollo Uso Ético y Gobernanza de la Inteligencia Artificial en el Ecuador (Trámite No. 485405, As. Cecilia Baltazar), presentado 1 de septiembre de 2026
An AI risk obligations rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
As of .
What it requires
- This is a proposed bill and binds nobody yet. If enacted as filed, it would apply to anyone who develops, deploys, markets or uses an AI system whose effects occur in Ecuador, wherever that person is established (Article 3).
- Do not develop, market or put into service an AI system meant to manipulate people's behavior through subliminal or deceptive techniques that remove their capacity for informed decision, among the other practices Article 13 prohibits.
- As a developer or implementer of a generative AI system, take reasonable technical measures so that synthetic content you produce is identifiable as generated or manipulated by AI where it could pass for authentic (Article 17).
- Tell people when content they receive was generated or manipulated by an AI system (Article 8).
- If you are responsible for a high-risk system, ensure appropriate human oversight (Article 16).
- As a provider of a general-purpose AI model, keep documentation on the main categories and sources of its training data and make public a sufficiently detailed summary of those sources (Article 24).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What it makes you log
Logging duty
As filed, the bill sets no duty to keep a log or record of an AI system's operations; its Article 16 list for high-risk systems does not name one. As a proposed bill this binds nobody yet.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
This bill, presented in the National Assembly on , was qualified for processing by the Consejo de Administración Legislativa on . The bill would prohibit developing, marketing or putting into service AI systems meant to manipulate people's behavior through subliminal or deceptive techniques that remove their capacity for informed decision, among other practices in Article 13.
It would require developers and implementers of generative AI systems to take reasonable technical measures so that synthetic content they produce is identifiable as generated or manipulated by AI where it could pass for authentic, under Article 17. It would give people the right to be told when content they receive was generated or manipulated by an AI system, under Article 8. Those responsible for high-risk systems would have to ensure appropriate human oversight, under Article 16.
Providers of general-purpose AI models would have to keep documentation on the main categories and sources of their training data and make public a sufficiently detailed summary of those sources, under Article 24.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates content with AI, trains models, deploys a chatbot or makes high-risk automated decisions.