Costa RicaNo rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
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Costa Rica
Checked: no rules foundcivil lawupdated 2026-09-04verified 2026-09-04
As of 4 September 2026 Costa Rica's judiciary deploys AI operationally, including document classification in debt-collection courts since 2021, chatbots and predictive analysis of constitutional rulings, and says it evaluates tools against the UNESCO AI ethics recommendation and data-protection law, but no policy, bar guidance, statute or sanctions case on AI in legal practice was found.
As of 2026-09-04, Costa Rica has 0 binding rules, official guidance in 0 categories, 0 proposals and 0 positions set only by case law across the 20 categories in the map. In 18 categories we found nothing; in 2 the position is not yet determined.
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- Proposed / consultation Proposed / consultation means a public bill, draft rule or consultation that is not yet in force.
- Set by case law Set by case law means no rule was found, but courts have set the position in decisions.
- Nothing found Nothing found means the category was checked and no rule, guidance, proposal or case-law position was found.
- Not yet determined Not yet determined means research did not establish a reliable position yet.
The rules, category by category
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No Corte Plena or Superior Council guideline for judges' use of AI was found; the judiciary cites the UNESCO 2021 recommendation as its evaluation framework. No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No bar guidance found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No generative-AI guidance from the Costa Rican Bar Association found as of 4 September 2026.
Ley 8968 applies generally; no guidance from the data protection agency on AI relevant to legal services found as of 4 September 2026.
No reported sanction for AI-hallucinated content found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
AI is deployed: a document classifier processed 1.3 million filings in 2024 and a constitutional-chamber predictive tool was built with the national university in 2025. The judiciary's transparency portal carries a declaration of AI use page which could not be opened, so a formal deployment policy is unconfirmed.
AI bills have been reported in the Legislative Assembly but none could be verified against official records in this research window; no statute is in force.
Official documents recorded for Costa Rica (0)
- No documents recorded yet; category sources link the official pages.
Court incidents on the record in Costa Rica
- Yichang District Court (Hubei)2026-07-21 Warning
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SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Costa Rica" (updated 2026-09-04, verified 2026-09-04), https://safelegalai.com/regulation/country/cr (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
SafeLegalAI is a research publication by Cognesio LLP, not a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice, and no lawyer–client relationship arises from reading it. Rules change; always check the official document linked on each record and take advice on your own situation. Researched and drafted with AI assistance; verified against primary sources and edited by Cognesio LLP. The linked official documents are the record — our summaries are not the law and are not legal advice.