Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing to a level of development that an organization in the city of Buenos Aires is not only applying in its daily work, allowing (as they claim) a 90 percent reduction in time, but there is a reality that is getting closer and closer: that the AI is formally an official.
The Attorney General of the City of Buenos Aires, the body responsible for proceedings against the State of Buenos Aires and the legal advice of the government are working on this development. The Attorney General’s Office has been under the leadership of the radical for two years Martin Ocampouses AI to classify and respond to queries, but aims to have a fully digital official in the region.
“We are the first justice AI office in Latin America and our goal is to be an AI office in each of these areas by next year,” Ocampo said Clarion.
Included in this objective statement is the appointment of a fully AI official. The task is not easy as it involves a number of legal hurdles. “Today this is not legally possible because by law civil servants are human beings and the decision-making lies with them.”“, Ocampo explained: “The legislature must change the laws of administrative procedure, appointment of officials and public responsibility.”
If an officer commits a mistake or crime, he or she may be punished or convicted. What would happen to AI in such cases? Can the human official who created or developed it be held responsible? These are some of the many questions that arise with these advances.
“We are working on this development, but first we need to adapt the system to a safe model in order to move forward. But.” Progress is inevitable Because the debate between public administration and companies is about making processes more efficient,” says Ocampo.
AI is now used in everyday work. The Attorney General’s Office has conducted 40,000 legal cases against the city and issued 10,000 legal opinions in 2025. Artificial intelligence is fully present in this work.
When a lawsuit is received against the government, the AI is responsible for classifying it in the input table and defining the area responsible for handling the issue and the attorney responsible. This process takes an average of 12 minutes. It could take up to four hours to get there. The same applies to resolutions, criminal cases, reports and legal opinions.
Can a person be sure that their claim will be taken seriously if it is analyzed by a computer? “The person who answers a lawsuit is always a lawyer who is advised by AI. But It’s not the AI that responds. And we have ethical application standards from the Attorney General’s Office that state that humans are at the center of all activities carried out by AI,” responds Ocampo.
The development and application of AI did not mean the loss of jobs either. “With AI, we saved more than 1,080 working hours. This allowed lawyers, among other things, to concentrate on more complex tasks,” he says. Lautaro Vasser, Chief of Staff of the Attorney General’s Office.
The Privacy and the Management of personal data It’s another key point as they go through the sieve of technology and the doubts surrounding it. The Attorney General’s Office doesn’t currently have its own AI program, so it’s working with it Systems like “Gemini” and “ChatGPT” in which “anonymizers” of personal data are used.
“That’s why we dictate and work ethical guidelines the use of AI. The final decision cannot be delegated to AI, which can never replace human judgment,” explains Vasser.
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