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Brazil AI Bill (PL 2338/2023)

Brazil's proposed general AI framework. The Senate-approved text takes a risk-based approach: it bans some 'excessive risk' uses, sets duties for high-risk systems (assessments, documentation, human oversight) and creates a national AI governance system. It passed the Senate in Dec 2024. Since then it has sat in a Chamber of Deputies special committee, awaiting the rapporteur's report.

Proposed

Jurisdiction: Brazil
Type: Bill
Official title: Projeto de Lei nº 2338, de 2023: Dispõe sobre o desenvolvimento, o fomento e o uso ético e responsável da inteligência artificial com base na centralidade da pessoa humana (Marco Legal da Inteligência Artificial)

What this means for you

If you build AI

Not law yet. The Senate text would require risk assessment of AI systems before market and stricter duties for high-risk uses. The Chamber may change it; if so, it returns to the Senate.
Watch for the Chamber special committee's rapporteur report: it will show the likely final text.

If you deploy AI

Businesses using AI in Brazil follow existing law today (the LGPD data protection law, the consumer code). The bill would add duties for those who deploy high-risk AI.

If you use AI

If enacted as the Senate passed it, people affected by AI decisions would gain rights to information, explanation and human review of high-risk decisions. Nothing applies yet.

Key dates

Dec 10, 2024PastSenate plenary approves the bill (as a substitute text) and sends it to the Chamber of DeputiesSource
Mar 17, 2025PastBill received by the Chamber of Deputies for reviewSource
Apr 4, 2025PastChamber creates a special committee to examine the billSource
May 20, 2025PastDep. Aguinaldo Ribeiro named rapporteur of the special committeeSource

Status history

Mar 17, 2025ProposedSenate-passed text under Chamber review; as of 2026-10-04 it awaits the rapporteur's report in a special committeeSource
May 3, 2023ProposedFiled in the Federal SenateSource

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