evidoria

← Back to browse

Good practice Imported

CAMINAR — Chile's Chamber of Deputies Generative-AI Suite for Legislative Drafting and Regulatory Impact Review

Chile · Valparaíso · See the Chile profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 75% 47/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Chile's Chamber of Deputies built CAMINAR, a four-part generative-AI suite for bill drafting, transcription and regulatory-impact review, using closed authorised legal databases with mandatory human validation — deployed for the 2024 Budget Law, but unevaluated.

CAMINAR — Chile's Chamber of Deputies Generative-AI Suite for Legislative Drafting and Regulatory Impact Review

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados de Chile (Information and Communications Technologies Directorate)
Period
2024–ongoing (launched June 2024; deployed for the November 2024 Budget Law)
Keywords
legislative drafting, regulatory impact analysis, parliamentary transcription, generative AI governance

Context

In June 2024, the Information and Communications Technologies Directorate of Chile's Chamber of Deputies presented CAMINAR ("Cámara Inteligencia Artificial"), a proprietary generative-AI suite built in a closed environment with four components: Caminar-L for legislative drafting, transcription, semantic search and regulatory impact assessments; Caminar-A for administrative support; Caminar-T for public information access; and Caminar-M, mobile apps for members and citizens.

Results

CAMINAR runs on authorised, vectorised legal databases with mandatory human validation before any output is released, and was deployed for the Chamber's November 2024 Budget Law proceedings; it is registered in Chile's public-algorithm registry (algoritmospublicos.cl) and was presented to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Conclusions

No quantitative performance data — bills processed, staff time saved, transcription accuracy, usage volume — has been published in any available source, and a sitting deputy has publicly questioned whether parliamentary staff are adequately trained to use the tools.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Built in-house by the Chamber's own ICT Directorate in a closed/proprietary environment; no budget figures published.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Presented June 2024; deployed for the November 2024 Budget Law; ongoing as of the source date with no published evaluation.
Staffing & skills
Information and Communications Technologies Directorate of Chile's Chamber of Deputies built and operates CAMINAR

Conditions for success

  • Mandatory human validation before any AI output is released
  • Use of authorised, vectorised legal databases with stated bias-mitigation and legal-hierarchy safeguards
  • Registration in Chile's public-algorithm registry (algoritmospublicos.cl)

Common failure modes

  • No quantitative performance data (bills processed, accuracy, time saved, usage volume) has been published
  • A sitting deputy (Érika Olivera) has publicly questioned whether staff are adequately trained to use the tools, an unresolved concern
  • The "most advanced in the world" framing is a self-assessment by Chamber leadership rather than an independent benchmark

Where it fits

Governance type
national legislature (Chamber of Deputies) in-house ICT unit
Scale
national parliament
Income level
high-income

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes

Indicative funding routes for practices of this type — always check each programme's current calls and eligibility rules.

Do you run this practice? Claim it — verified implementers get a public contact pathway and can propose corrections.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

Attachments

Similar practices you may find useful