El SalvadorLey de Fomento a la Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnologías, decisiones de la IA o impulsadas por IA
Decreto Legislativo No. 234, art. 18
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In force since 11 March 2025.
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- When you use AI commercially, or to determine a person's access to rights or services in El Salvador, tell them whether the decision was made directly by the AI or was AI-driven, with a comprehensible and transparent explanation of the process.
- Give the person a way to challenge the decision before a competent natural person who can confirm, modify or revoke it.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA)
What it reaches
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Place of effect
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Data subject
What the log must hold
Decision basis
Logging duty
Article 18 never uses the words log, record, or audit trail, but it requires establishing a mechanism so a competent natural person can confirm, modify, or revoke an AI or AI-driven decision, which cannot be done without some record of what the decision was and the process by which it was reached, so the duty is implicit.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- 22 September 2026
- Provision
- Decreto Legislativo No. 234, art. 18
- Trigger
- automated_decisions
Who checks it
Audit expectation
none
What this law does
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Article 18 requires that when AI is used commercially, or to access rights or services within the Republic, the user must be told whether the decision was adopted directly by the AI or was AI-driven, with a notification that gives a comprehensible and transparent explanation of the process.
The same article requires establishing a mechanism to challenge the decision before a competent natural person who can confirm, modify or revoke it, and makes compliance with the article a precondition for the safeguards Decreto Legislativo No. 234 otherwise grants a registered developer or operator.
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