El Salvador is actively seeking foreign talent to live and invest in the country, including philosophers, as part of a broader strategy to position itself as a global hub for innovation tied to Bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.

Stacy Herbert, director of the National Bitcoin Office, said the government is rolling out programs to attract top global minds. “We are implementing other programs, including granting 5,000 passports to the best and brightest, talent searches, but also something unprecedented: philosophy, so we are looking for philosophers,” she said.

In an interview on the Network State Podcast, Herbert highlighted that El Salvador has embraced innovation without fear, approving the Bitcoin Law, the Artificial Intelligence Authority Law, and the Robotics Technologies Law. “We have passed a robotics law, but we still need to draft the regulation for it,” she noted.

Herbert said the country identified an opportunity to create a clear and welcoming regulatory framework amid what she described as restrictive approaches in the European Union and slower action in the United States. “There is an opportunity to attract more of the best and brightest… these AI geniuses and engineers want to build,” she said.

With reforms making Bitcoin use voluntary and new laws promoting AI, robotics, research, and fair competition, El Salvador aims to attract not only investors and engineers, but also philosophers and thinkers shaping the ideas behind the next wave of innovation.