At the end of February 2026, the UNESCO Regional Office in Santiago and Chile’s National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) signed a cooperation agreement to promote ethical AI in education across Chile and Latin America.
Key facts:
- Signed by Esther Kuisch Laroche (Director, UNESCO Regional Office Santiago) and Mónica Soto Pérez (COO, CENIA)
- Establishes a framework for collaboration covering: digital competency development, AI literacy promotion, people-centred AI development, and ethical principles throughout the AI lifecycle
- Target audiences for training programmes and resources: general public, educators, technical specialists, and policymakers
- Aligns with UNESCO’s normative mandate for ethical, inclusive, and rights-based AI
- Preceded the formal launch of the Regional AI in Education Observatory (April 2026), with CENIA as a founding partner
Score relevance: Reinforces dim 1 (AI curriculum/guidance exists via UNESCO frameworks) and dim 3 (ethics component explicitly central to agreement), and dim 13 (publicly accessible educational resources extended to new populations). All activities are voluntary cooperation; no binding mandates issued.