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Brazil's AI is municipal and judicial before it is corporate — city assistants in Florianópolis and Rio Verde, a generative tool built by judges — with the R$23bn Plano Brasileiro de Inteligência Artificial behind it.
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Florianópolis answers 600 city services through a WhatsApp assistant, and Brazil's courts have adopted LIA3R, a generative AI built by judges.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil28 Oct 2026
Goiás audit court adds AI plain-language summaries to its rulings
Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Goiás (TCE-GO) — The Goiás State Court of Accounts (TCE-GO) now offers IAGO Linguagem Simples, producing AI plain-language summaries and an infographic for each acórdão. Citizens and audited agencies in Brazil click 'Entenda melhor' on the decisions site, with no login. The court's Artificial Intelligence Service and Communications Directorate built this ruling simplifier, which director Heloísa Lima expects to speed clear explanations.
Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorBrazil16 Oct 2026
Goiás credits its AI policing programme with solving 3,000 crimes
Goiás State Government (IA Contra o Crime) — Goiás says IA Contra o Crime helped clear over 3,000 crimes, detain 1,500 suspects and recover 1,100 vehicles up to 15 October. Across 194 municipalities in Brazil, the AI in policing tool cross-checks camera footage, tracking cars by colour, stickers or dents despite cloned or altered plates. These self-reported crime-solving AI figures lack independent evaluation.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil15 Oct 2026
Brazilian ministries publish a guide to children's use of AI
Ministry of Justice and Public Security; Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship — The Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) and Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (MDHC) issued a Guide on Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Childhood and Adolescence on 15 October, steering families, educators and youngsters towards safe AI for children. Drafted with UNESCO, it belongs to the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Plan (PBIA). TIC Kids Online Brasil 2025 data on children's AI use show 65% of internet-using under-18s had tried generative AI.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil14 Oct 2026
Saquarema launches Saquá, an AI assistant for municipal services
Prefeitura de Saquarema — Prefeitura de Saquarema now answers city-service questions through Saquá, an AI virtual assistant on computer or phone. Residents, entrepreneurs, accountants and council employees type, speak or send a photo to get guidance on IPTU, certificates, protocols or administrative cases. The AI helper sits inside the Portal de Serviços and the Central de Atendimento ao Cidadão (E-CAC).
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil14 Oct 2026
Gramado pilots an AI concierge for visitors
Prefeitura de Gramado — Prefeitura de Gramado is trialling an AI concierge that gives tourists tailored tips on attractions, food, outings and public services. Visitors scan QR codes at the Pórtico da Várzea Grande, the Central de Informações Turísticas, Praça Major Nicoletti and Praça das Etnias to open the assistant. Lina Tecnologia built this digital guide under the Sandbox de Inovação scheme, working with the Secretaria de Turismo and backed by the Gramado Convention & Visitors Bureau.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil14 Oct 2026
Rio de Janeiro decree gives citizens human review of AI decisions
Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro — Rio de Janeiro's Decree No. 50.523, signed 13 October by acting governor Ricardo Couto de Castro, grants citizens human review of harmful or rights-restricting AI rulings. The Rio de Janeiro AI policy, PIAF (Fluminense Artificial Intelligence Policy), adds a SECTI-chaired forum and the CEIA-RJ ethics committee within SETD. Under the state AI rules, agencies grade risks, draft sector plans and name focal points, in force from the 14 October gazette.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil8 Oct 2026
Rio Grande do Sul's electoral court launches LÍVIA, an AI aide for judges' chambers
Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Rio Grande do Sul (TRE-RS) — TRE-RS, the Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Rio Grande do Sul, debuts LÍVIA, an AI legal drafting tool for magistrates' offices. Short for Linguagem Inteligente para Votos, Informações e Atos, LÍVIA structures case files, speeds legal research and drafts reports, votes and decisions. Maria de Lourdes Galvão Braccini de Gonzalez, presiding, unveils this chambers assistant to magistrates, staff and collaborators.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil8 Oct 2026
Brazil's Senate audit office issues a practical guide to AI use
Senado Federal — Auditoria — Senado Federal's Auditoria has published a Guia Prático de Uso de IA, a step in Brazil AI policy telling staff how to bring generative tools into administrative work. Tested prompts, risk warnings and a list of documents allowed into AI tools fill the staff rulebook, which follows Ato da Diretoria-Geral nº 28/2025. Auditor-general André Paixão says many teams still work by hand; the guide sits on the Senate transparency page.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBrazil6 Oct 2026
Espírito Santo's judicial school trains court staff in practical AI
Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Espírito Santo (Emes) — Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Espírito Santo (Emes) is giving AI training for court staff of the Poder Judiciário do Estado do Espírito Santo (PJES) over videoconference: chambers teams on 6 and 7 October, judicial secretariats on 14 and 15 October and legal residents on 17 and 18 November 2026. Judge Gustavo Henrique Procópio Silva leads each session with fellow employees André Roepke and Tarcisio Francisco Regiani Junior. The programme serves the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Espírito Santo (TJES) strategic plan under Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ) guidance on judicial AI skills.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil5 Oct 2026
Niterói moves building permits onto LUSIA, an AI-assisted licensing platform
Prefeitura de Niterói — Secretaria Municipal de Urbanismo — Niterói's Secretaria Municipal de Urbanismo is running LUSIA, an AI building permit platform covering more than 30 services, in assisted operation. AI tools sort requests, spot patterns, forecast outcomes and guide reviewers, a complexity score dispatches files to staff, and a chatbot fields planning-law questions. Automated licensing should clear a house in an urban zone within 24 hours; rollout ends by February 2027, and pending files stay on the old route.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil1 Oct 2026
AI cameras start flagging phone use and seat belts on the Washington Luís
Polícia Militar Rodoviária de São Paulo — Ecovias Noroeste Paulista has activated AI cameras along Washington Luís road (SP-310) in São Carlos, catching handset users and unbuckled motorists, even in motion, nonstop. Under this AI traffic enforcement, São Paulo's Military Highway Police (PMRv) vets each frame, confirms breaches, then penalises. Handset use costs R$ 293.47 and seven licence points; skipping the belt, R$ 195.23 and five, under this automated roadside monitoring.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil30 Sep 2026
Bahia's state court adopts Mato Grosso's Hannah AI to screen appeals
Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia (TJBA) / Tribunal de Justiça de Mato Grosso (TJMT) — Brazil's Bahia state court (TJBA) began installing Sistema Hannah, the Mato Grosso state court's (TJMT) court AI tool, on 21 September and trained 2nd Vice-Presidency magistrates and staff on 23 September. Hannah scans case files, tests appeals bound for the STJ or STF against a 14-criterion admissibility map and drafts a structured report for the ruling. In Mato Grosso this admissibility assistant closed over 15,000 cases, shrinking typical turnaround from 23 days to two.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil30 Sep 2026
Balneário Camboriú installs AI facial-recognition cameras in its schools
Prefeitura de Balneário Camboriú — Balneário Camboriú is rolling out AI facial recognition in schools it runs: a R$ 1,416,389.76-a-year contract for 150 face-matching and video-analytics cameras, feeding live footage and outputs to the Municipal Guard. Phase one of this school surveillance reaches ten addresses, first three nurseries in Bairro dos Municípios; the Education Department's head office is among them.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil26 Sep 2026
Brazil's finance ministry uses AI to hunt illegal betting sites
Ministério da Fazenda — Brazil's Ministry of Finance already runs AI to detect illegal betting sites, linking gambling pages with the payment channels behind those pages. Finance Minister Dario Durigan unveiled the plan on 25 September with the Federal Revenue Service, the Federal Police and watchdog Anatel, after a provisional measure outlawed betting operators. Platforms still live from 6 October face blocking in this gambling enforcement drive.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil23 Sep 2026
Brazil's electoral court launches ChatVote, its own AI voter assistant
Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) — Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) has put ChatVote, an in-house AI voter assistant, on the TSE Portal homepage and the e-Título app. Voters can ask in plain language about the 2026 elections: polling day, hours and locations, excusing a missed vote, poll-worker duties and election resolutions. Bought-in chatbots served since 2020; this election chatbot is the first built by the court itself. Answer ratings, WhatsApp access and voice trials come next.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil23 Sep 2026
Senhor do Bonfim readies an AI assistant for taxpayer services
Prefeitura de Senhor do Bonfim — Senhor do Bonfim, Bahia, is readying BIA (Bonfim Inteligência Artificial), an AI tax assistant serving the Municipal Department of Finance and Budget. Residents will request IPTU, TFF and TLL bills, arrears lookups, payment slips, statements and certificates by message, voice note, call, video call or snapshot of paperwork. Web chat and council channels will host the municipal taxpayer chatbot.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil17 Sep 2026
Goiás switches on an AI that spots wildfires from satellite images
Governo de Goiás / Corpo de Bombeiros Militar de Goiás — Goiás has activated the Sistema Integrado de Monitoramento e Alertas de Goiás, an AI wildfire detection platform flagging probable forest-fire hotspots from satellite imagery. Officials claim two to four hours saved in operational response; several specialists previously sifted those pictures manually. AutomaGo IA co-built it. Satellite fire monitoring gains here carry no independent evaluation.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil17 Sep 2026
Salgueiro answers residents around the clock with a WhatsApp AI
Prefeitura de Salgueiro — Salgueiro, in Pernambuco, now answers residents on WhatsApp through SIA, a municipal AI assistant wired into the 1Doc service centre. Questions on public services, tax, urban licensing and the Municipal Ombudsman get replies at any hour, by text or voice note. The round-the-clock council chatbot passes specialist requests through 1Doc to the relevant department.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil16 Sep 2026
Paraíba's audit court gives auditors an AI that reads 8.78 terabytes
Tribunal de Contas do Estado da Paraíba (TCE-PB) — Tribunal de Contas do Estado da Paraíba has switched on Seixas, an AI for public-accounts auditing. Built jointly with Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, the system fields ordinary queries and hands back the exact wording underpinning every reply, sweeping 8.78 terabytes: 212,362 audit reports, 69,809 decisions, 16,443,401 other procedural acts. Automated drafting arrives at phase two.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil15 Sep 2026
Maringá puts a WhatsApp AI assistant in front of council services
Prefeitura de Maringá — Prefeitura de Maringá has opened Mari, an AI assistant for council services reachable on WhatsApp. Residents describe a need in ordinary words and get guidance shaped to them, rather than learning how the city hall is organised. Instituto de Projetos Avançados para Cidades, Tecnologia e Administração and Secretaria Municipal de Logística e Compras run the chatbot within Maringá + Digital.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil1 Sep 2026
Brazil's electoral court sets the legal definition of a political deepfake
Tribunal Superior Eleitoral — Brazil's superior electoral court voted 5-2 to define a political-ad deepfake as synthetic content made or altered by AI or similar technology, that convincingly creates, copies or changes a living, dead or fictional person's image, voice or speech. These political deepfake rules govern campaign material before the 4 October elections, including the roughly 1,000 political advertisements broadcasters must carry daily. The same ruling spared Senator Flávio Bolsonaro penalties over AI-generated images of his imprisoned father, because the party convention that showed them counted as a private event, outside public advertising.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil27 Aug 2026
Florianópolis launches a WhatsApp AI assistant for 600 city services
Prefeitura de Florianópolis — Florianópolis city council has launched 'Tia', a WhatsApp generative-AI assistant for over 600 municipal services, from tax and health guidance to business licensing and company registration. Softplan built the round-the-clock, multilingual AI government chatbot, which reads text and images and passes users to staff; the council calls it the first generative-AI public-service assistant in a Brazilian state capital.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil20 Aug 2026
Brazil's courts adopt LIA3R, a generative AI built by judges
Conselho Nacional de Justiça / Tribunal Regional Federal da 3ª Região — Brazil's National Council of Justice has added LIA3R, generative AI for courts built by judges and staff of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region, to its Conecta programme, opening it to every court nationwide. The judge-built AI condenses long filings, handles specialised legal research and writes decisions, dispatches and case summaries, with about 1.55 million documents summarised across 106,000 cases and roughly 100,000 interactions a month, the court says. It launched at the sixth FestLabs in Cuiabá.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil20 Aug 2026
CNJ nationalises three generative AI tools for Brazil judiciary
Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ) — Brazil's CNJ spread generative AI for courts nationwide via Conecta: three Mato Grosso state court tools. Within this judicial AI, LexIA analyses processes and drafts, Hannah checks appeal admissibility, OMNIA clears case backlogs with real-time recommendations.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil14 Aug 2026
Rio Verde deploys an AI chatbot spanning 244 municipal services
Prefeitura de Rio Verde (Goiás) — Rio Verde's city government in Goiás runs an AI municipal chatbot from Gove covering 244 services across 24 departments through 26 specialised AI agents. Since January 2026 it has handled nearly 65,000 interactions, settling about 40% of requests without staff, the city says; no independent evaluation is published.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBrazil3 Jul 2026
Brazil trains over 167000 civil servants in AI across 11 programmes
Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos (MGI) — Brazil's Ministry of Management and Innovation (MGI) has delivered AI training for civil servants to over 167 thousand federal public servants through 11 distinct courses. Coursework runs via the Enap virtual school and Serpro, covering generative artificial intelligence, ethics, data protection, automated processes and data science as part of a wider drive to build AI skills for government workers. MGI has also introduced an AI Competency Matrix to steer further skills development.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil1 Jun 2026
Brazil's health insurance regulator to use AI to recover SUS costs
Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) — Brazil's supplementary health regulator, the ANS, is developing Iara, an AI claims review tool to assess insurers' challenges to SUS treatment charges for their members, with analysts checking every recommendation. A first module is due by end-2026 and full rollout in 2028; developer Paipe won a public tender.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil29 May 2026
GOV.BR launches central AI chatbot handling 157000 conversations
Ministry of Management and Innovation (MGI) — Brazil's GOV.BR portal answers up to 75% of education and health questions through an AI chatbot for citizen services, across 157 thousand chats. Minister Esther Dweck's INSPIRE project built the government chatbot; ministries record 182 AI use cases.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil25 May 2026
São Paulo's state court launches the IA TJSP toolkit for judicial work
Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo (TJSP) — The São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP) launched IA TJSP, guidance and tools for AI in judicial work under CNJ Resolution 615/25. Transcreve TJSP turns hearing audio into text, Apoia anonymises data, Promptus is a national prompt bank, the Gerador de Ementas TJSP drafts case summaries and Jurisprudência GPT searches higher-court case law, citing its sources. Tutorials on data-protection settings and prompting round out the court AI kit.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil24 Apr 2026
Brazil MGI adopts internal AI governance policy via ordinance
Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação em Serviços Públicos (MGI) — Brazil AI governance policy now covers MGI, the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services, via Portaria 3.485, fixing principles, guidelines and responsibilities for developing, acquiring and using AI systems inside the ministry. It functions as internal AI regulation for public administration rather than external rulemaking.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil6 Apr 2026
CGU puts AI into Fala.BR ombudsman platform for citizen service
Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) — Fala.BR, Brazil's federal ombudsman platform run by CGU, now offers AI citizen service, automatically sorting complaints by reading each submission to determine its manifestation type. A planned upgrade will let the tool recommend the receiving body, helping automate complaint classification.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBrazil30 Mar 2026
Brazil's tax appeals council pilots Iara AI and sets usage rules
Conselho Administrativo de Recursos Fiscais (Carf) — Brazil's federal tax appeals council, Carf, published ordinances in the Official Gazette on 30 March creating Iara, an AI case-law search tool covering its rulings since 2012 to help councillors draft votes, plus generative AI rules. For 30 days access was restricted to councillors and curation staff in a pilot group; users must review outputs and officials remain accountable.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil27 Mar 2026
Brazil's tax authority adopts AI policy banning social scoring
Receita Federal do Brasil — Brazil's Federal Revenue Service presented its AI policy for tax administration and customs, with ethical, legal and technical rules, at a UN meeting on 27 March. Final decisions and legal acts stay with civil servants, misuse is a disciplinary matter, mass surveillance, social scoring of citizens and subliminal manipulation are banned, and a curator monitors generative-AI errors and bias.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil5 Feb 2026
Portaria RFB nº 647 instituting an artificial intelligence policy
Receita Federal do Brasil (RFB) — An AI governance policy tax authority mandate now binds Brazil's Federal Revenue Service across a system's full life, from acquisition to retirement. Human review must approve each automated outcome; social scoring and mass surveillance are forbidden; a new "curator of generative AI" watches for hallucinations, bias and errors. This artificial intelligence policy for public administration took formal shape as the Artificial Intelligence Policy, published in the DOU.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil30 Jun 2025
Brazil's Ministry of Justice regulates AI use in criminal investigations
Ministry of Justice and Public Security — Brazil now has dedicated rules for AI in criminal investigations under Portaria 961, issued 30 June 2025 by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. Police at federal, state and municipal levels gain authority to apply such tools, though real-time facial-recognition scanning of the public is banned unless officers are hunting a missing person, protecting a crime victim, or facing an imminent threat. Pulling confidential records through automated systems for confidential records still demands a judge's sign-off.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil11 Mar 2025
Resolução CNJ nº 615 on artificial intelligence in the judiciary
Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ) — Binding AI rules now cover Brazil's judiciary: Resolução CNJ nº 615 governs AI in the judiciary nationwide, effective 14 March 2025. Judges and staff must guarantee fairness, human oversight, algorithmic auditability and data protection whenever AI tools come into play, watched by the freshly created Comitê Nacional de Inteligência Artificial do Judiciário. Judicial AI governance standards were subsequently revised through Resolução CNJ nº 674 on 25 March 2026.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil10 Dec 2024
Marco Legal da Inteligência Artificial (PL 2338/2023)
Congresso Nacional (Senado Federal) — This Brazil AI regulation, Senator Rodrigo Pacheco's Marco Legal da Inteligência Artificial (Bill PL 2338/2023), advanced from the Senate to the Chamber of Deputies on 17 March 2025, where it awaits a vote. Pacheco first tabled the text on 3 May 2023, setting out duties, rights and oversight rules for building and deploying AI systems nationwide. Provisions cover tiered risk categories, disclosure obligations, algorithmic impact reviews and mandatory human supervision — a broad AI governance legislation package.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil25 Sep 2024
Núcleo de Inteligência Artificial (NIA) for the federal executive
Secretaria de Governo Digital (SGD), Ministério da Gestão e da Inovação (MGI) — Brazil's Secretaria de Governo Digital runs the Núcleo de Inteligência Artificial (NIA) to spread AI adoption in government agencies nationwide. Established by Portaria SGD/MGI nº 6.618 and revised via Portaria SGD/MGI nº 473 of 20 January 2026, it gives ministries shared software, coaching, ethics rules and hands-on backing. This centralises AI governance in government instead of each body building capacity separately.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBrazil6 Apr 2021
Estratégia Brasileira de Inteligência Artificial (EBIA)
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI) — Brazil set its AI policy in Brazil through the Estrategia Brasileira de Inteligencia Artificial (EBIA), created by Portaria MCTI no 4.617 and revised by Portaria no 4.979 on 13 July 2021. Grounded in OECD ideals — fairness in growth, focus on people, openness, resilience and answerability — the Strategy shapes state pursuit of research, innovation and responsible artificial intelligence deployment. Nine pillars organise the plan: law, governance, foreign relations, skills training, R&D, and rollout across industry, government and public safety.
The Ministry of Health has linked six hospitals into a national intelligent-ICU network.
RegulationHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil14 Oct 2026
Senate bill on AI in healthcare reaches a committee vote
Senado Federal — Comissão de Assuntos Sociais — PL 931/2026, senator Dra. Eudócia's bill extending Brazil AI regulation to healthcare, awaits a vote in the Senate's Comissão de Assuntos Sociais (CAS) on a substitute by rapporteur Damares Alves. AI in patient care would leave clinicians accountable and keep human oversight, and patients would gain a right to clear disclosure. Health-policy, sanitary-regulation and data-protection authorities would jointly supervise these health AI rules.
Evidence of adoptionHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil11 Oct 2026
Two-thirds of Brazilian doctors use AI, an MV survey finds
MV — AI use among doctors has reached 66.1%, frequent or occasional, in the first O Uso de Inteligência Artificial por Médicos no Brasil survey from MV, a health-technology firm at Porto Digital. Among those users, 56.6% lean on clinical decision support to read exams, propose ICD codes and match symptoms. MV gathered 196 responses between the second half of 2025 and early 2026, 112 of them from practising or trainee physicians spread over all five regions.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil6 Oct 2026
Hospital Santa Cruz starts AI transcription of emergency consultations
Hospital Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz do Sul) — Hospital Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz do Sul brought AI medical transcription into emergency and SUS urgent care on 5 and 6 October, helped by a Telepatia team. The system captures each doctor–patient exchange and drafts a note, which clinicians correct and sign off before filing. Clinicians are being coached as this ambient clinical documentation spreads gradually, which the hospital calls a southern Brazil first, across a unit handling 3,500 to 4,000 patients monthly.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil22 Sep 2026
Fortaleza follows 5,000 chronic patients through a WhatsApp AI assistant
Prefeitura de Fortaleza — Fortaleza is tracking roughly 5,000 residents with hypertension or diabetes at three municipal clinics through IAra, a WhatsApp AI care assistant inside the Saúde que Cuida Digital bundle for the SUS. Enrolment goals sit at 20,000 by the end of 2026 and 200,000 by the end of 2027 for this chronic-disease follow-up tool. Alongside came the Saúde na Palma da Mão app plus booking confirmation over WhatsApp.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil11 Sep 2026
Rondonópolis emergency unit starts AI ultrasound and adds echocardiograms
Unidade de Pronto Atendimento 24h de Rondonópolis — Unidade de Pronto Atendimento 24h de Rondonópolis has begun scanning with a machine carrying AI ultrasound diagnostics, bought by the municipality for about R$278,000 of its own money. Onboard intelligence shortens waits for results in severe and emergency presentations, and echocardiography joins the unit's procedure list for the first time. AI-assisted imaging here has had no published independent evaluation.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil3 Sep 2026
Feira de Santana gives its municipal doctors an AI clinical-decision aid
Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Feira de Santana — Feira de Santana's municipal health department launched Cuidado em dIA on 2 September, an AI clinical decision support platform from startup Volts helping the city's doctors weigh clinical data for diagnoses, treatment and referrals. The decision aid was presented to network doctors and nurses; final clinical decisions stay with professionals.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil3 Sep 2026
Brazil opens a national command centre for its AI-equipped ICUs
Brazilian Ministry of Health — Brazil's Ministry of Health has unveiled, at the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo's medical school, a command centre for the SUS's intelligent ICUs, offering live AI ICU monitoring of vital signs in six hospitals in Manaus, Recife, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre. The network has 60 active smart beds under round-the-clock watch, and the ministry aims for 280 in 14 institutions. Health minister Alexandre Padilha described it as genuine artificial intelligence working inside the public system.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil5 Aug 2026
Brazil links six hospitals into a national intelligent-ICU network
Brazilian Ministry of Health — Brazil's health ministry runs its National Network of Intelligent ICUs, AI in intensive care backing clinicians, in six hospitals: Manaus, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Recife, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho. Companion pilot SAMU Inteligente links live clinical data across emergency dispatch centres, ambulances and intensive care units in Recife, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. It set out the smart ICU network at an intelligent-hospitals symposium.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil28 Jul 2026
Porto Alegre adds generative AI to SUS hospital-admission triage
Prefeitura de Porto Alegre (Secretaria Municipal de Saúde and Procempa) — Porto Alegre's municipal IT company Procempa has built MedGenIA, a generative-AI health app, into Gerint, the city health department's SUS hospital admissions system, for AI hospital admission triage. From each facility's request data it drafts a structured case summary and a suggested priority rating for the regulating physicians allocating beds.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil8 Jul 2026
Paraná puts AI evidence search into two public cancer hospitals
Governo do Paraná (Hospital do Câncer de Londrina and Hospital São Vicente, Guarapuava) — Paraná has become the first Brazilian state to place AI in cancer care at SUS hospitals, helping doctors work through complex cases. First-stage sites for Projeto Capricórnio, built by Google Cloud with the Princess Máxima Center, are the Londrina Cancer Hospital and Guarapuava's Hospital São Vicente, where an oncologist says AI-assisted literature reviews take 15 to 20 minutes. Decisions remain with medical teams.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil25 Nov 2025
Santa Casa BH becomes first 100% SUS hospital to adopt AI clinical tools
Santa Casa BH — Santa Casa BH is now the first 100% public SUS hospital to deploy AI clinical decision support, having bought Elsevier's AI suite for physicians. The rollout bundles ClinicalKey for current literature, ClinicalKey AI for clinical questions from validated evidence, and Elsevier OrderSets to unify treatment protocols. As Brazil's busiest SUS provider, this brings AI-assisted medical diagnosis into public healthcare.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil15 Sep 2025
Volta Redonda becomes first city in Rio de Janeiro state to deploy AI for imaging diagnostics
Volta Redonda municipal government — Volta Redonda has become Rio de Janeiro state's first municipality to apply AI for imaging diagnostics, with São João Batista Hospital, Dr Nelson dos Santos Gonçalves Hospital and the Santo Agostinho emergency unit now feeding chest X-rays to HarpiAI for review. An automated radiology second opinion arrives in under five minutes, ahead of a planned expansion into mammography. Doctors keep final authority.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesBrazil22 Aug 2025
Oncoclínicas deploys Brazilian AI to detect lung cancer early in Rio hospital
Oncoclínicas and Casa de Saúde São José — A Brazilian AI lung cancer detection tool from Oncoclínicas and Casa de Saúde São José flags hidden nodules in every chest CT in Rio de Janeiro, whatever the exam's original reason. Twelve months, 6 mil scans, 150 nodules caught early, three tumours confirmed, turnaround under 24 hours. Salvador and Brasília are next for the AI cancer screening effort.
Itaú Unibanco has taken an in-app AI assistant to 300,000 clients.
DeploymentFinance & InsuranceBrazil28 Oct 2026
BTG Pactual gives investors a natural-language AI trading assistant
BTG Pactual — BTG Pactual launched Trader AI, an AI trading assistant in Brazil that takes plain-language commands through the bank's dealing systems. Users pull live prices and BTG Research notes, or send single and block structured orders on B3, US-listed securities, crypto-assets and prediction-market contracts. Desk head Jerson Zanlorenzi says users still decide and confirm each ticket on this trading copilot.
Itaú and GFT cut mainframe migration time up to 70% with AI agents
Itaú Unibanco — Itaú Unibanco and GFT Technologies say AI agents cut up to 70% off the time to move the bank's batch closings, settlements and reconciliations from mainframe to cloud in Brazil, with delivery up to 3.3 times faster in the first phase. Engineers run this AI-assisted legacy modernisation on Batch2Cloud, co-built within the Wynxx generative AI platform, under a cloud plan begun in 2018.
Evidence of impactFinance & InsuranceBrazil7 Oct 2026
Banco do Brasil says 2,300 AI agents match the work of 20,000 staff
Banco do Brasil — Banco do Brasil credits about 2,300 AI agents in banking with a 12-month efficiency gain equal to 20,000 employees' output. Chief executive Tarciana Medeiros cited the banking AI estimate at the 27th Congress of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC) in São Paulo on 7 October; freed hours go to customers. No independent evaluation exists.
Itaú Unibanco launches an in-app AI assistant to 300,000 clients
Itaú Unibanco — Itau Unibanco has released 'ia.i', an in-app AI banking assistant, to 300,000 clients, who can do their banking and seek financial guidance in natural language, spoken or typed. Built on a multi-model architecture, it should reach the whole client base by December.
Nubank implements AI to expand credit card limits for clients
Nubank — Nubank's AI credit card limit increases in Brazil raised limits for some customers as its loan book grew 42% to US$30.4 billion in Q3 2025. Guilherme Lago said sharper credit analysis drove growth without matching risk. The AI-driven credit assessment also lifted revenue and profit.
Mercado Pago launches a voice and text AI assistant for banking
Mercado Pago — More than 60 financial tasks now run through spoken or typed requests, thanks to a new AI voice assistant for banking that Mercado Pago rolled out across Brazil. Balance enquiries, Pix transfers, savings scheduling and expense sorting all fall under this virtual assistant for finance, built on proprietary technology from Mercado Livre and reaching the customer base in stages. The launch marks the fintech's debut in this category anywhere across Latin America.
Bradesco launches Pix by voice on WhatsApp with BIA AI
Bradesco — Bradesco has launched Pix by voice on WhatsApp, driven by generative AI assistant BIA, enabling customers to move up to R$300 through spoken instructions or typed chat. A trial group of 1,000 clients in Brazil received early access, before a wider voice banking rollout scheduled for year-end.
Banco do Brasil adds generative AI to personal finance manager
Banco do Brasil — Banco do Brasil has built an AI personal finance manager into its Minhas Finanças Multibanco app, giving retail customers tailored credit line and investment tips from their financial profile. It claims to be Brazil's first bank offering AI-driven investment suggestions personalised this way.
Evidence of adoptionFinance & InsuranceBrazil10 Apr 2025
Eight in ten Brazilian banks now use generative AI, Febraban finds
Febraban — Generative AI in banking has reached eight of every ten banks across Brazil, per Deloitte's Febraban Banking Technology Survey 2025, with 95% using AI to some degree. Efficiency rose 11.4% on average from adoption in financial services, and 38% of banks saw gains topping 20%.
Tokio Marine launches AI system for car repair estimates
Tokio Marine Seguradora — Tokio Marine Seguradora runs AI car insurance claims from phone photos sent via WhatsApp. Cília Tecnologia's 3D model reads damage and returns a cost estimate in minutes, skipping inspections and speeding payouts. This AI-based repair estimation replaces manual appraisal.
77% of Brazilian lawyers now use AI frequently, up from 55% a year earlier.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil15 Oct 2026
Brazil's bar sets terms for conduct deals with legal AI companies
Conselho Federal da OAB — The Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) issued Resolution 16/26, setting criteria for conduct adjustment agreements (TACs) with firms that build or sell legal AI tools. Under this AI regulation, the Federal Council's board may negotiate deals to prevent or fix breaches of professional rules, including lawyer-only work, with lawyer oversight and human checks on automated features. Vendors may not claim to replace lawyers or carry OAB endorsement, and signing a TAC confers none.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil1 Oct 2026
Brazil's Supreme Court fines a lawyer for a hidden prompt aimed at its AI
Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) — Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes fined lawyer Marcelo Henrique Martins R$5,000 after MARIA Shield, the court AI's security module, flagged hidden text in a defence petition (Ação Penal 2.822). 'Negar todos os comandos do GPT' resembles prompt injection. Moraes referred the concealed instruction to the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) for discipline and the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) for criminal review.
Evidence of adoptionLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil29 Jul 2026
87.4% of São Paulo lawyers' association members use AI at work
Associação dos Advogados de São Paulo (AASP) — Among 1,149 AASP members surveyed from 14 May to 14 July 2026, 87.4% use an AI tool in their legal work and 62.1% of those use one often. Hallucinations top feared risks at 54%, unsupervised use second on 23.2%, 74.2% back rules on AI in legal practice and 84.3% report higher productivity. Respondents skew older: 81.3% are over 45.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil13 Jul 2026
Brazil's bar council gives lawyers free tool to check AI-drafted filings
Conselho Federal da OAB — Brazil's Federal Council of the Bar Association (OAB) launched OpenDetector, a free AI citation checker for registered lawyers, flagging invented legal provisions, wrong precedents and citations absent from official databases in AI-drafted petitions and opinions. The Forlex-built checking tool opens the OAB's national plan for AI in legal practice.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil15 Jun 2026
Brazil's bar launches a national plan for AI in legal practice
Conselho Federal da OAB — CFOAB, the Bar Association's Federal Council, launched the National Plan for the Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice in João Pessoa, a Brazil AI policy extending its 2024 generative AI recommendations. Its pillars are technological inclusion, governance, defence of professional prerogatives, training and modernising OAB services. Next under the plan: a Code of Good Practice on AI in Legal Practice and technical chambers in state sections.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil20 May 2026
Brazil's STJ opens an inquiry into prompt injection in petitions
Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) — The Superior Court of Justice (STJ) opened an inquiry and administrative procedure on finding prompt injection, concealed instructions to fool AI models, in filings on its docket. Each attempt must be logged in the record so judges can impose procedural penalties. President Herman Benjamin says the court's AI blocked these hidden-command attacks, now being mapped.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil14 May 2026
São Paulo bar's ethics tribunal bars sole reliance on AI output
OAB São Paulo — Tribunal de Ética e Disciplina — The São Paulo bar's ethics and discipline tribunal (OAB SP TED) unanimously adopted ethical guidelines for lawyers' use of AI on 16 April 2026. Arguments may not rest on automated results alone, complete checking of generated content is deemed vital against factual or legal mistakes, and partners and managers must oversee associates, interns and assistants. Cybersecurity policies and staff training round out this professional AI rulebook.
Evidence of adoptionLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil25 Mar 2026
77% of Brazilian lawyers use AI frequently, OAB São Paulo finds
OAB São Paulo — The 2026 Report on the Impact of AI on Law, presented at the São Paulo bar association (OAB SP), puts frequent AI use among Brazilian lawyers at 77%, up from 55% a year earlier. Legal AI adoption was measured across more than 1,800 professionals nationwide.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesBrazil6 Mar 2026
Rio de Janeiro's public defenders launch VIA AI drafting platform
Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (DPRJ) — Rio de Janeiro's Public Defender's Office launched VIA, an AI legal drafting platform producing petitions, analyses and documents from defenders' prompts inside the case system, from first client contact to court filing. The office says service could run up to five times faster, with humans reviewing all output.
Brazil's education council bars AI from grading essays and written exams.
RegulationEducation & TrainingBrazil1 Sep 2026
Brazil's education council approves ban on AI-graded essays and written exams
Conselho Nacional de Educação — Brazil's National Education Council (CNE) has approved national AI guidelines for schools and universities that ban AI essay marking: no AI may correct, evaluate or suggest grades for essays or written exams at any level. Children in early-years education and primary school's first five years must not use AI tools without supervision, an AI detector's result cannot alone justify punishment, and automated grading cannot solely decide grades or progression. Bans apply on publication in the official gazette; institutions get 12 months for the rest.
Mato Grosso do Sul to give 190,000 state-school pupils Gemini
Governo de Mato Grosso do Sul (Secretaria de Estado de Educação) — Mato Grosso do Sul's state government has signed a Google partnership bringing AI in state schools to about 190,000 students through Gemini and Google Workspace for Education, with training for up to 5,000 teachers. The state education secretary says pupils and teachers will need guidance on appropriate, ethical use of Google's AI tools.
Evidence of adoptionEducation & TrainingBrazil16 Sep 2025
70% of Brazilian high school students use generative AI for schoolwork
Cetic.br — Generative AI in education has reached 70% adoption among Brazilian high schoolers online, per Cetic.br's TIC Educação survey, topped by ChatGPT and Gemini for homework research. Just 32% recall school guidance on safe, responsible use. The poll covered 7,476 students, 1,462 teachers and 945 managers across 1,023 schools nationwide.
Ânima Educação launches IA.RA virtual learning agent across its universities
Ânima Educação — Ânima Educação, Brazil's largest higher-education group, has launched IA.RA, an AI learning assistant on its Ulife platform. Built for AI in higher education, it produces summaries, questions and reading suggestions, checks assessments, and translates and transcribes Portuguese, English and Spanish. The AI-based teaching assistant personalises study and cuts workload.
SESI-SP deploys LEIA AI tutor across 140 schools for 36,000 students
SESI-SP — LEIA, an AI tutor in schools from SESI-SP on Microsoft Azure OpenAI, covers all 140 São Paulo state schools, roughly 36 mil students and 3 million-plus monthly interactions. It reshapes material around each learner's speed, interests and struggles beyond class time. Staff mine usage patterns to catch gaps and rework teaching, an AI-powered learning platform now central to instruction.
Riachuelo hands WhatsApp customer service to an agentic AI agent
Riachuelo — Riachuelo lets 84% of WhatsApp Business shoppers settle requests unaided, versus 30% under older chatbots, after switching to Genesys Cloud Agentic Virtual Agent. The retailer's agentic AI customer service tackles cases like late parcels and escalates the rest to staff. Genesys cites satisfaction up 60% and tech costs down 26% for the AI virtual agent; nobody has independently evaluated them.
C&A launches first AI personal shopper in Brazilian fashion retail
C&A — C&A holds a national first: Brazil's inaugural AI personal shopper for fashion, built into its website and app. Shoppers converse with the tool, receiving outfit pairings matched to taste and purchase intent. A R$300m digital budget for 2025 backs this AI-powered styling assistant, alongside a hyper-personalised homepage and design tools for C&A's creative staff.
Grupo Boticário deploys AI shopping assistant on O Boticário app
Grupo Boticário — Conversion rose 46% within a month of Grupo Boticário launching its AI shopping assistant on the O Boticário app, built on Amazon Bedrock Agents and Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4. Buyers using the retail chatbot paid 7.4% more per basket than those bypassing it.
Magalu launches AI commerce on WhatsApp with virtual assistant Lu
Magazine Luiza — Brazil's Magalu (Magazine Luiza) offers AI commerce via 'WhatsApp da Lu', fronted by virtual influencer Lu. Customers browse, select and pay inside the app, guided by a conversational shopping assistant on a multi-agent AI system. Roughly one million regular buyers have early access.
Evidence of adoptionRetail & ConsumerBrazil5 Jun 2025
52% of Brazilian consumers used AI for shopping, Adyen report finds
Adyen — More than half of Brazil's consumers, 52%, leaned on an AI shopping assistant such as ChatGPT during the past 12 months, Adyen's Retail Report 2025 reveals, a figure up 52% from the prior year. Of that share, 74% credited the assistant with steering what they bought when shopping with AI. Researchers polled 2,000 consumers alongside 500 retailers nationwide.
99 uses AI to flag possible motorbike crashes for its safety team
99 — 99 now flags possible motorbike crashes with Suporte em Tempo Real, an AI incident detection system that reads trip data and escalates suspicious rides without anyone pressing a button. A specialised 99 team reviews each alert and triggers the company's response protocols for partner motorcyclists and passengers. Senior safety-prevention manager Maria Luiza Marcolan places the system alongside Pítia and Atena, two earlier safety AI tools on the platform.
Gol Linhas Aéreas — Gol Linhas Aéreas has opened check-in through ChatGPT, in restricted testing and for all customers from 19 October at no extra charge, free accounts included. Typing @gol in OpenAI's assistant leads to a login on the carrier's site, where travellers pick a seat, confirm the trip and save a boarding pass carrying a QR code. Gol calls this a first for a Latin America airline and step one of a generative AI project.
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Evidence of impactTransport & LogisticsBrazil2 Oct 2026
AI cameras on São Paulo's Raposo Tavares coincide with a 22% fall in crashes
Governo do Estado de São Paulo — São Paulo's state government counts 22% fewer collisions, 67 versus 86, along the 5 km between km 15 and 20 of the Raposo Tavares highway (SP-270) across July and August 2026 compared with 2025, after AI traffic cameras arrived. Serious or deadly cases went from five to one (80%). The devices spot likely mobile use or unbuckled drivers, and a Military Highway Police officer checks each shot before any penalty. The comparison window is brief, and officials gave no share of the decline owed to camera enforcement.
Seara puts an AI route assistant in 300 delivery drivers' WhatsApp
Seara (JBS) — Seara, part of JBS, has put the uMov.me AI delivery assistant Mari on routes worked by 300 drivers, 2,000 vehicles and 20 distribution centres that handle about 500,000 drops monthly. Drivers speak to Mari through WhatsApp voice notes; the tool tracks each truck using existing company data and alerts sales and back-office teams. Seara wants this route-tracking AI to push successful deliveries to 98.5%.
Paraná's state audit court has rolled Microsoft 365 Copilot out to its staff.
DeploymentBusiness OperationsBrazil17 Sep 2026
Assaí gives its internal auditors a generative AI agent built by Vivo
Assaí Atacadista — Assaí's internal auditors now use Auditus, a generative AI audit agent Vivo assembled on Microsoft Copilot Studio following an isolated proof of concept. Auditus interprets documents, checks replies against company policy and proposes technical lines of enquiry inside Teams, SharePoint, Word and Copilot Chat. Vivo pitches the co-pilot for auditors as backing judgement calls and trimming routine analysis.
Paraná's state audit court rolls Microsoft Copilot out to its staff
Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Paraná (TCE-PR) — Paraná's state audit court, the TCE-PR, has rolled Microsoft 365 Copilot into its work at a staff launch, putting AI in public auditing alongside administrative and technical tasks. A training track follows, with basic AI literacy compulsory for every employee.
Nestlé brings its AI and VR training platform to its Araçatuba factory
Nestlé Brasil — Nestlé Brasil has extended Nesverso, a virtual reality and AI workforce training platform, to the Araçatuba plant after twelve months elsewhere in the country. Tailored challenges, skills-gap diagnostics, guide characters, a help chatbot and Brazilian Sign Language translation run on the system. By Nestlé's count, this VR-based upskilling has logged almost 50,000 online sessions, four times the uptake operators gave conventional video courses.
78% of Brazilian companies use AI in HR, survey finds
Think Work — AI adoption in Brazilian human resources has reached 78% of companies, Think Work found, staff using such tools daily. A quarter of HR workflows (24% average) run with AI tools in HR departments support. The poll drew 203 respondents, firms of varying size, mostly Southeast region, 69% management roles.
The farm confederation CNA runs JoIA, a free AI adviser for farmers on WhatsApp.
DeploymentAgriculture & FoodBrazil25 Aug 2026
Brazil's farm confederation launches a WhatsApp AI adviser for farmers
Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil (CNA) — Brazil's Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA) has launched JoIA, a free AI farm adviser on WhatsApp that technical director Bruno Lucchi says will serve as a technical consultant helping rural producers run their farms. Drawing on the CNA's Campo Futuro figures for input prices and production costs, the WhatsApp assistant lets producers compare themselves regionally and raise financing and debt questions, routing technical ones to Senar courses and training material.
Vale is extending AI automation with ABB across its iron-ore operations.
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesBrazil12 Aug 2026
Vale and ABB extend AI automation across Brazil's iron-ore plants
Vale — Vale and ABB have widened their alliance to take automation and AI in mining across Vale's Brazilian iron ore processing plants, as already done at Conceição II in Itabira. That 11.2Mt-a-year complex has over 7,000 automated instruments, 100-plus monitoring cameras and data intelligence tracking 400-plus variables. Operations vice-president Carlos Medeiros reports 25% higher productivity, 40% more premium direct-reduction ore and 26% lower iron losses to tailings there.
Impulso uses generative AI to slash campaign creation time
Impulso (Grupo RD Saúde) — Impulso, Grupo RD Saúde's retail media unit in Brazil, cut campaign turnaround from three days to roughly five minutes with generative AI in retail media ad production at scale. The AI-generated ads roll out in stages: e-commerce creatives first, then email marketing and push notifications.
Evidence of adoptionSales & CommercialBrazil7 Nov 2025
82% of Brazilian sales professionals expect AI to boost productivity
Agendor — Agendor's Panorama of AI Use in B2B Sales in Brazil surveyed 1,031 professionals and found 82% expect AI in B2B sales to lift their output. Over half, 52.38%, predict machines will take over routine operational work within two years, whereas 30.26% instead picture the technology as a strategic partner guiding decisions rather than just a tool for machines taking over routine operational work.
Sebrae adds a Gemini AI agent to its PNBOX+ business-planning platform
Sebrae — Sebrae has built an AI business-planning assistant on Google's Gemini into PNBOX+, free on the Sebrae Portal since 23 September. The conversational agent guides Brazil's entrepreneurs through a plan, clarifies management ideas and poses questions; technical director Bruno Quick stressed that the tool backs owners rather than drafting plans. PNBOX+ logged over 167,000 consultations, almost 18,000 active users and more than 200,000 plans in 2026.
B3, the stock exchange, has extended its AI coding assistant to about 600 staff.
DeploymentTechnology & SoftwareBrazil1 Sep 2026
Brazil's stock exchange B3 extends an AI coding assistant to 600 staff
B3 — B3, Brazil's stock exchange, made Anysphere's Cursor its official AI coding assistant for engineering, widening it to about 600 employees after active developers grew from 34 to 154 between May and July. Luiza Sangalli, B3's superintendent of artificial intelligence, says application delivery time fell by about 35%, and the exchange now accepts roughly 1.5 million lines of AI-assisted code a month. Human review, testing and security checks still apply, and no independent measurement of the 35% figure has been published.
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