Repositorio de Algoritmos Públicos — GobLab UAI's Five-Year Public Audit of Chile's State Algorithms

GobLab, the government-innovation laboratory of the School of Government at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, has independently identified and catalogued automated and semi-automated decision systems used by the Chilean state since 2021, publishing an annual report on its Repositorio de Algoritmos Públicos. Systems are identified through a documented methodology and reviewed by a multidisciplinary editorial committee, and the project works in partnership with Chile's official Consejo para la Transparencia (CPLT).

Build public, independent visibility into where and how the Chilean state uses automated decision systems, and use that evidence base to support algorithmic-transparency policy.

The work underpins Chile's 2023 General Instruction on Algorithmic Transparency, developed with CPLT and the first binding instrument of its kind in Latin America, which surveyed more than 800 public bodies. In 2025, 13 institutions - including the National Employment and Training Service (SENCE) and the Social Insurance Institute (IPS) - applied GobLab's ethical-algorithms toolkit and subsequently published their own algorithm disclosures.

Documented coverage has grown every year: 75 systems in the 2023 report, 101 in 2024 (26 new), 117 in 2025 (16 new), and 162 in the 2026 report (43 new) - five consecutive editions.

The repository remains an independent academic monitoring effort rather than a legally binding registry: of the more than 800 public bodies surveyed for the 2023 instruction, only a small subset (13 institutions by 2025) have gone on to publish their own disclosures using GobLab's tools, so most of the Chilean state's algorithmic use is still documented by GobLab's own research rather than by agencies' self-reporting.