Executive Summary Thank you for your interest inthis ECLAC publication Please register if you would like to receive information on our editorialproducts and activities. When you register, you may specify your particularareas of interest and you will gain access to our products in other formats. Register Click on the link below for our social networks andother channels for accessing our publications: https://bit.ly/m/CEPAL Executive Summary This document was coordinated by Álvaro Soto, Rodrigo Durán, Antonia Moreno and Sebastián Adasme, of the National Centre for ArtificialIntelligence (CENIA) of Chile, and Sebastián Rovira, Valeria Jordán and Laura Poveda, staff members of the Division of Production, Productivityand Management of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The report was prepared by Rodrigo Oportot and Verona Leisseigneur of CENIA, with the support of Demetris Herakleous and Francisca Lira,staff members, and Tomás Rodrigues, consultant, with ECLAC, and of Salma Jalife, Alberto Farca and Susana Cruz, of Centro México Digital. It was prepared within the framework of the European Union–Latin America and the Caribbean Digital Alliance and was financed by theEuropean Union, through the Global Gateway strategy. Neither the European Union nor any person acting on its behalf is responsible for the use that may be made of the information contained inthis publication. The views expressed in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union. The United Nations and the countries it represents assume no responsibility for the content of links to external sites in this publication. Mention of any firm names and commercial products or services does not imply endorsement by the United Nations or the countriesit represents. The views expressed in this document, which has been reproduced without formal editing, are those of the authors and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the United Nations or the countries they represent. United Nations PublicationLC/TS.2025/110Distribution: LCopyright © United Nations, 2025All rights reservedPrinted at United Nations, SantiagoS.2500536[E] This publication should be cited as: Soto, Á., Durán, R., Moreno, A., Adasme, S., Rovira, S., Jordán, V. and Poveda, L. (Coords.) (2025).Latin American Artificial Intelligence Index (ILIA) 2025. Executive Summary.Project Documents(LC/TS.2025/110). Economic Commissionfor Latin America and the Caribbean and National Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Applications for authorization to reproduce this work in whole or in part should be sent to the Economic Commission for Latin Americaand the Caribbean (ECLAC), Documents and Publications Division, publicaciones.cepal@un.org. Member States and their governmentalinstitutions may reproduce this work without prior authorization, but are requested to mention the source and to inform ECLAC ofsuch reproduction. Acknowledgments The valuable support of the following individuals and entities in preparing this document is gratefully acknowledged: -Nicolás Schubert and Cristóbal Lea Plaza, Google-Natalia Iregui, Marianella Sánchez, and Camila Gatica, Amazon Web Services (AWS)-Mauricio Agudelo, Enrique Zapata, and Marcelo Facchina, Development Bank of Latin America and theCaribbean (CAF)-Fernando Vargas, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-National Research and Development Agency (ANID) of Chile-César Parga and Aryanne Quintal, Organization of American States (OAS)-Local UNESCO team-Nestor Maslej, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University-Casey Weston and team, Data for Good, LinkedIn-Kevin Xu and Cynthia Lo, GitHub-Ana Álvarez and Savio Nguyen, Sensor Tower-María Cristina Cárdenas and Marcia Fanti, Coursera-Nicolás Grossmann and team, Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI)-José Guridi and team, Foresight-Pamela Gidi, Gidi Consulting-Phillipe Navaux, Carlos Barrios, Esteban Hernández, Nicolás Wolovick, and the team of the AdvancedComputing System for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCALAC)-Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford University-Natalia Lidijover, Juan Eduardo Carmach, Pedro Hepp, and Claudio Cuadros, OTIC, Sofofa-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile-Universidad de Chile-Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María-Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez-Loreto Aravena, Soledad Cofré, Andrés Carvallo, and Felipe Urrutia, CENIA operations team, and allmembers of its Technical Advisory Committee The accelerated advance of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the foundations of economic and socialdevelopment, as well as global geopolitics. In this context, Latin America and the Caribbean faces structuralchallenges that we have termed “development traps”: one of low capacity for growth; another of high inequality,low social mobility and weak social cohesion; and a third of limited institutional capacities and ineffectivegovernance. These three traps are closely interrelated and mutually