Philippines · AI Regulations
The country's own AI governance approach, risk tiers, transparency duties, and its official authority.
AI-drafted, editorially reviewed. Confirm specifics with the official authority.
The Philippines has no enforceable AI statute. Bills to create a dedicated authority and a development framework have been filed in Congress but are not law, so obligations today come from instruments that already exist — above all the Data Privacy Act where AI processes personal data, plus consumer-protection, intellectual-property and sector rules. Policy direction sits with the executive through the national AI strategy, and the Department of Science and Technology activated a national AI research centre in February 2026.
- No AI statute is in force; the bills filed in Congress have not become law.
- Where AI processes personal data, the Data Privacy Act and the NPC already apply.
- Direction comes from executive strategy and institutions rather than from binding rules.
Official authorities
- Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
National AI research and strategy institutions.
- National Privacy Commission (NPC)
Applies where AI processes personal data.
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