Morena Unveils Constitutional Reform to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

Mexico City — Morena’s parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies has presented a proposal to amend Article 73 of the Constitution, which would empower Congress to legislate on artificial intelligence and create a unified national framework for the technology.

Vice-coordinator Gabriela Jiménez Godoy announced the initiative, warning that since 2023 multiple AI-related bills have been filed without any advancing, leaving Mexico without regulation that provides certainty for individuals and productive sectors.

The proposal notes that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation has flagged that since 2024, at least seven states — the State of Mexico, Sinaloa, Querétaro, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Jalisco and San Luis Potosí — have passed their own AI legislation, but a federal standard remains pending.

That gap, the initiative argues, “has produced heterogeneous regimes whose harmonization requires the authority this proposal establishes, in alliance with local legislatures and not in substitution of them. Without federal authority, Mexico is heading toward 32 parallel regimes whose coexistence generates uncertainty.”

The Supreme Court also observed in Direct Amparo 6/2025 that issues such as the use of protected works as training data, ownership of AI-assisted inventions and products, and enforcement of intellectual property rights in cases of counterfeiting and cloning “lack an answer in any Mexican instrument.”

To address that, Jiménez Godoy’s proposal states that once the constitutional reform is approved, Congress should convene local legislatures to gather their opinions and proposals to enrich the future AI law, establishing a comprehensive and coherent regulatory framework.

In earlier weeks, Morena’s Chamber leader Ricardo Monreal had signaled that AI legislation would be a priority for the upcoming ordinary session beginning Sept. 1.