{"name":"Applied AI in Antigua and Barbuda — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Antigua and Barbuda, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/antigua-and-barbuda","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Antigua and Barbuda","slug":"antigua-and-barbuda","iso2":"AG","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":3,"deployments":2,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":1,"industries":2,"countries":1,"linked":3},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Antigua and Barbuda","role":"Radiographer","org":"Doctors Medical Centre","text":"Doctors Medical Centre has begun AI MRI scanning for the public in Antigua ahead of a formal opening, driven by waits of several weeks elsewhere. The open MRI — described as the region's first, and built for patients who cannot tolerate an enclosed scanner — draws on artificial intelligence to sharpen image accuracy. Dr Joey John, medical director, said anyone may use the service, not solely people queuing through Mount St John's Medical Centre, with the backlog the priority. Qualified specialists staff the site, every machine is new rather than refurbished, and wider AI-enhanced diagnostic imaging is planned.","date":"2026-01","source":"https://antigua.news/2026/01/19/new-diagnostic-centre-offers-early-mri-access-amid-healthcare-backlog/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Antigua and Barbuda","org":"Government of Antigua and Barbuda","text":"Gaston Browne says Antigua and Barbuda has drafted an AI regulation bill to guard against destructive misuse of the technology. Speaking on Point FM, the prime minister linked the draft law to fears that unchecked systems could cause harm, while stressing plans to tap AI gains for creative sectors and government services. The artificial intelligence legislation balances these dangers against economic opportunity.","date":"2025-09-01","source":"https://antiguantrumpet.com/2025/09/antigua-and-barbuda-drafting-legislation-to-regulate-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence-pm-confirms/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Antigua and Barbuda","role":"Immigration officer","org":"Government of Antigua and Barbuda","text":"Antigua and Barbuda has switched on ArriveAntigua.com, an AI border entry system at V.C. Bird International Airport that automates passport data capture for arriving and departing travellers. Travellers take a selfie and scan their document, so the software fills their profile and prints a QR code, cutting wait times for customs and immigration officers. The rollout is one strand of the government's wider Project Optimus digitisation drive.","date":"2025-03","source":"https://antiguantrumpet.com/2025/05/welcome-to-arriveantigua-com-ab-launches-groundbreaking-online-arrival-system/"}]}