{"name":"Applied AI in the Bahamas — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for the Bahamas, 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/bahamas","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":"Bahamas","slug":"bahamas","iso2":"BS","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":9,"deployments":5,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":1,"regulation":3,"industries":7,"countries":1,"linked":9},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bahamas","org":"Government of the Bahamas","text":"The Bahamas will put $3m of an Inter-American Development Bank loan into AI skills training, says Sebas Bastian, minister of innovation and national development. It splits between basic AI literacy for all and advanced tuition for Bahamians building technology, with courses announced shortly.","date":"2026-08-13","source":"https://www.tribune242.com/news/2026/aug/13/govt-to-invest-3m-into-ai-skills-training/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bahamas","role":"Civil servant","org":"Ministry of Innovation and National Development","text":"Sebas Bastian, minister of innovation and national development, told the 2026-2027 Budget debate that SmartGov, a package of AI tools for civil servants, will absorb briefs, research, correspondence and paperwork. The Government will not lay software over today's forms, but rewire the workflow beneath, so a task that used to pass across a desk becomes automatic. A secure national identity card anchors the joined-up state these public sector AI tools serve.","date":"2026-06-15","source":"https://www.tribune242.com/news/2026/jun/16/sebas-pledges-ai-reform-across-the-public-service/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Marketing & Creative","region":"Bahamas","role":"Fashion model","org":"Bahari","text":"Bahari posted Facebook images for the Coral World collection on 31 May built around AI-generated models, not photographed people. Shoppers pushed back, saying a label built on island culture should have booked real faces. General manager Carole Barnett replied that campaigns have leaned on local talent since 2014, and that AI fashion imagery suited this shoot because Coral World itself has closed.","date":"2026-05-31","source":"https://www.tribune242.com/news/2026/jun/03/bahari-receives-backlash-for-using-ai-in-campaign/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Sales & Commercial","region":"Bahamas","role":"Real estate agent","org":"Rodland Real Estate","text":"Rodland Real Estate has moved every agent onto Roro, a spoken-command AI real estate platform devised by founder Tim Rodland. Asked aloud, Roro returns median prices, sales volumes, price-per-square-foot and pricing shifts across Old Fort Bay, rebuilt daily from Bahamas Real Estate Association feeds. The brokerage AI system also opens client files, drafts compliance paperwork and handles diaries and correspondence; nobody outside the firm may sign in.","date":"2026-04-16","source":"https://ewnews.com/rodland-real-estate-unveils-proprietary-ai-platform-roro-to-transform-bahamian-market/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Bahamas","role":"Tribunal officers, legal professionals","org":"Bahamas Industrial Tribunal","text":"Bahamas Industrial Tribunal is trialling AI in judicial administration, using new software to speed legal research, draft judgment formats, and flag looming case deadlines, President Indira Demeritte-Francis confirmed. Chief Justice Ian Winder pushed for tougher safeguards to accompany this AI-assisted legal research drive.","date":"2025-11-25","source":"https://www.tribune242.com/news/2025/nov/26/industrial-tribunal-launches-ai-pilot-as-winder-calls-for-safeguards-against-misuse/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Bahamas","org":"Supreme Court of The Bahamas","text":"Lawyers appearing before The Bahamas' Supreme Court must now flag any generative AI in court proceedings, under Practice Direction No. 3 of 2025, issued 5 November 2025. The rule obliges them to check every fact and citation an AI tool produces and to stand fully behind whatever they file, regardless of how it was drafted. Three principles anchor the guidance: openness about AI use in court submissions, careful checking of outputs, and personal accountability for filings.","date":"2025-11-05","source":"https://www.commonwealthlawyers.com/cla/establishing-best-practice-how-the-bahamas-and-turks-and-caicos-islands-are-shaping-authoritative-guidance-on-generative-ai-in-court-proceedings-by-khaliq-martin/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Bahamas","role":"Geriatric healthcare workers","org":"Public Hospitals Authority","text":"The Bahamas' Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) began an eight-week AI senior monitoring trial, Remember 2 (RM2.ai) Pilot Program, fitting around 100 older adults from the Geriatric Hospital and affiliated clinics with app-linked smartwatches. AI-driven elderly monitoring of vital signs, medication reminders and fall prevention aims to cut hospitalisations.","date":"2025-08-27","source":"https://ewnews.com/ministry-of-health-launches-pilot-project-with-remember2-platform-to-support-elderly-care/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Bahamas","org":"Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA)","text":"Bahamas broadcasting regulation now compels licensed operators to draft or update governance rules for artificial intelligence, synthetic media and deepfake tools. The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority delivered this shift through a revised Code of Practice for Content Regulation (ECS 78/2024, 20 December 2024), weaving AI-generated content rules into broader service standards rather than issuing a standalone deepfake measure.","date":"2024-12-20","source":"https://urcabahamas.bs/publications/code-of-practice-for-content-regulation-revised-2024/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Bahamas","org":"Parliament of The Bahamas","text":"Bahamas' Electricity Act sets AI regulation in the electricity sector under Section 18, letting the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority write binding rules for artificial intelligence use by power companies. Any such rules must satisfy ten named principles, among them safety, transparency, fairness, accountability and redress alongside security, robustness, explainability, governance and contestability. The statute defines artificial intelligence as tech letting a device or programme be trained or coded to sense surroundings, process data automatically, and produce decisions or suggestions — an unusually direct embedding of AI oversight in utilities law.","date":"2024-06-01","source":"https://www.bahamaspress.com/minister-of-energy-discusses-the-bahamas-electricity-act-2024/"}]}