{"name":"Applied AI in Colombia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Colombia, 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/colombia","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":"Colombia","slug":"colombia","iso2":"CO","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"nationalStrategy":{"name":"Política Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CONPES 4144)","year":2025},"counts":{"entries":49,"deployments":34,"evidenceImpact":1,"evidenceAdoption":4,"regulation":10,"industries":14,"countries":1,"linked":49},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Government of Colombia (Vice-Presidency, Ministry of ICT, Ministry of Education, SENA)","text":"Google and the government opened 15,000 AI training scholarships for Google Career Certificates on 13 October, each with a Coursera year of Google's Professional AI Certificate, via NGO Colnodo under Talento ColombIA. Public schools gain up to seven million education licences; SENA courses may reach one million people. Vice-President José Manuel Restrepo unveiled the AI skills programme with Edgardo Frías, Google's Andean region director, alongside partner ministries for ICT and Education.","date":"2026-10-13","source":"https://www.portafolio.co/tecnologia/google-y-el-gobierno-anuncian-15-000-becas-y-hasta-7-millones-de-licencias-educativas-en-colombia-504380"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Urban planning control inspectors","org":"Alcaldía de Medellín — Secretaría de Gestión y Control Territorial","text":"Alcaldía de Medellín will present CONTROL-SAT in November, an AI satellite monitoring system run by the Secretaría de Gestión y Control Territorial to flag unlicensed construction. A 2025 pilot over 77 critical polygons and 1,198 hectares, including the cerros tutelares, gave about 1,321 effective alerts, stopped roughly 107 builds and found 1,079 possible planning breaches. Already in pre-production, the satellite-based detection moves from manual image comparison to automated, real-time alert tracking.","date":"2026-10-09","source":"https://www.medellin.gov.co/es/sala-de-prensa/noticias/con-imagenes-satelitales-e-inteligencia-artificial-la-alcaldia-de-medellin-identifica-cambios-en-el-territorio/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Colombia","role":"Technology journalist","org":"ENTER.CO","text":"ENTER.CO, Colombia's technology outlet since 1996, has hired Julian Bailey, an AI journalist covering tech, innovation and fintech, with a human editor approving each story. Julian Bailey is a pen name with a synthetic portrait, not a person. ENTER calls the move its entry into machine-written news, complementing rather than replacing reporters.","date":"2026-10-05","source":"https://www.enter.co/especiales/dev/inteligencia-artificial/enter-lanza-julian-bailey-periodista-ia/"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Colombia","org":"Renting Colombia","text":"Renting Colombia cut road accidents 34% in 2026 across 13 organisations in Rutas de Vida, an AI fleet safety scheme combining artificial intelligence, telemetry and data analysis. Cameras in over 2,000 vehicles flag tiredness, microsleep, distraction, phone use, crash risk and lane drift, alerting drivers instantly; injuries fell 45.3%. The driver-monitoring results are self-reported and have not been independently evaluated.","date":"2026-09-29","source":"https://noticias.autocosmos.com.co/2026/09/29/renting-colombia-reduce-34--los-siniestros-viales-con-inteligencia-artificial-y-telemetria"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Colombia","role":"Retail banking staff","org":"Grupo Aval","text":"Grupo Aval has moved over 36 AI agents in banking into production in 18 months via ADL Digital Lab and its RE initiative, handling digital-channel data management and conversion for over three million Colombians. Technology vice-president Ernesto Gutiérrez gave the figures; Lulo Bank described AI spanning decision-making, risk management, operational efficiency and customer interaction.","date":"2026-08-31","source":"https://www.semana.com/foros-semana/articulo/asi-es-como-la-banca-esta-dejando-atras-los-pilotos-con-inteligencia-artificial-y-la-esta-integrando-a-su-negocio/202608/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Colombia","org":"Endeavor Data Unit / Xertica.ai","text":"Endeavor's data unit, backed by Xertica.ai, finds in its Colombia AI Pulse study that 61% of Colombian companies call AI a strategic priority, yet only 37.7% have made it a significant part of daily operations. On AI adoption in Colombia, 82% already see measurable impact and 72% raised AI budgets last year; the country scores 45.6 of 100 on the AI Sophistication Index, near Mexico's 45.1.","date":"2026-08-31","source":"https://colombiaone.com/2026/08/31/ai-adoption-colombia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Colombia","role":"Corporate relationship manager","org":"BBVA","text":"BBVA's Brújula, an AI sales assistant for bankers built by its South American teams, helps corporate and institutional relationship managers in Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Uruguay rank opportunities, prep meetings, log client visits and draft financing proposals. Each interaction feeds the next client conversation, and the manager keeps professional judgement and accountability for decisions and the portfolio.","date":"2026-08-27","source":"https://www.bbva.com/es/empresas/bbva-lanza-brujula-para-transformar-con-inteligencia-artificial-el-asesoramiento-a-las-empresas-en-america-del-sur/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Public procurement officer","org":"Ministerio de Defensa Nacional","text":"Flagging risks ahead of signature is now the job of Helios, an AI corruption detection in public contracts system rolled out by Colombia's Ministry of Defense. Built to scan millions of SECOP I and SECOP II procurement entries, it hunts for warning patterns: bids with only one competitor, suspiciously compressed award windows, clusters of business going to the same supplier, and companies carrying past sanctions. So far the AI procurement fraud detection tool sits in an early pilot stage, restricted to internal use by ministry staff.","date":"2026-08-06","source":"https://www.bluradio.com/nacion/helios-la-ia-con-la-que-mindefensa-quiere-eliminar-la-corrupcion-en-contratos-militares-rg10"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Citizen-petitions case handler","org":"Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC)","text":"Colombia's ICT ministry uses six AI, analytics and cloud systems from the ministry's IT office for AI in government work: generative AI manages citizens' petitions and complaints (PQRSD) and another tool runs contractor payments. The rest issue telecoms-operator charge sheets and debt-collection notices, step one of a broader public-sector AI programme.","date":"2026-07-09","source":"https://www.mintic.gov.co/portal/715/w3-article-439551.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Colombia","role":"Call-centre agent","org":"Tigo (Colombia Móvil and UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones)","text":"Colombia's Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) has opened the testing phase of ConTIGO Digital, Tigo's project for AI customer service by phone. Full Tigo subscribers are first to try the phone AI, linked to the operator's internal systems, and the CRC will use the results to weigh regulatory changes.","date":"2026-06-18","source":"https://www.crcom.gov.co/es/noticias/comunicado-prensa/inicia-fase-experimentacion-contigo-digital"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Colombia","role":"Production and supply-chain planner","org":"Cementos Argos","text":"Cementos Argos has swapped manual grinding and inventory planning at its Cartagena plant for machine learning in cement production, an optimisation system that weighs hundreds of scenarios simultaneously and proposes actions. Built by in-house planning, production, supply-chain and analytics teams, it will spread to other Argos plants.","date":"2026-06","source":"https://elnorte.com.co/cementos-argos-revoluciona-su-operacion-en-cartagena-con-el-poder-de-la-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Colombia","org":"Consejo de Estado","text":"Colombia's Council of State warned sharply over AI-fabricated citations after finding that rulings a lawyer cited in a rejected jurisprudence-unification appeal were non-existent or mismatched. It ruled AI admissible only when decisions come from the judge's own reasoning, never deciding, weighing evidence or interpreting law, and referred the lawyer to disciplinary authorities.","date":"2026-06-01","source":"https://www.eltiempo.com/justicia/cortes/el-duro-llamado-de-atencion-del-consejo-de-estado-sobre-el-uso-irresponsable-de-la-inteligencia-artificial-en-demandas-3561102"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Comisión Nacional de Disciplina Judicial","text":"Six ethical parameters for AI in Colombian courts come from the National Commission of Judicial Discipline, ruling on a magistrate whose tutela decisions were allegedly machine-written without his checking. Human reasoning stays irreplaceable; officials using judicial AI must withhold sensitive data and disclose when, how and in which passage it helped.","date":"2026-05-17","source":"https://telemedellin.tv/?p=179457"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Citizen services officer","org":"Gobernación de Cundinamarca","text":"Residents of Cundinamarca can now lodge PQRSDF requests over WhatsApp, using an AI virtual assistant government services channel called Policarpa. Linked to the Cóndor document system, it issues a filing number holding the same legal weight as in-person paperwork, an AI-powered public service assistant cutting the need for office visits.","date":"2026-04-28","source":"https://enfoquecomunicaciones.com.co/ahora-los-ciudadanos-realizan-sus-tramites-desde-el-chat/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Early-childhood social worker","org":"Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá (Consejería Distrital TIC)","text":"Bogotá's District ICT Office has switched on an AI child protection system that follows more than 640,000 under-sixes individually to foresee vulnerability, violence included. It merges education, health and social-integration data, combines a predictive model with case management, and, after a Kennedy pilot with territorial teams, is spreading citywide in stages.","date":"2026-04-23","source":"https://www.portafolio.co/tecnologia/bogota-implementa-sistema-con-inteligencia-artificial-para-anticipar-riesgos-en-la-primera-infancia-492570"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC)","text":"MinTIC has rolled out updated security and privacy guidelines for artificial intelligence systems in Colombia, revising the Modelo de Seguridad y Privacidad de la Información (MSPI) under new AI governance in the public sector rules called Lineamientos de Seguridad y Privacidad de la Información para Sistemas de Inteligencia Artificial. These set technical, organisational and regulatory standards for building and maintaining AI tools inside government bodies.","date":"2026-04-22","source":"https://www.mintic.gov.co/portal/inicio/Sala-de-prensa/Noticias/437197:Ministerio-TIC-publica-lineamientos-de-seguridad-y-privacidad-de-la-informacion-para-sistemas-de-inteligencia-artificial"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Colombia","role":"Public-health suicide-prevention officer","org":"Secretaría Distrital de Salud de Bogotá","text":"Bogotá's health department runs Proyecto STOP, AI suicide risk detection that scans social media for patterns tied to depression, suicidal ideation and other mental-health risks. The system links people at risk to Línea 106, the department's free emotional-support line, for earlier prevention.","date":"2026-04-01","source":"https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2026/04/01/bogota-utilizara-inteligencia-artificial-para-detectar-riesgos-para-la-salud-mental-en-redes-sociales-asi-funcionara-la-nueva-estrategia/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Colombia","org":"Corte Suprema de Justicia (Sala Civil)","text":"Colombia's Supreme Court has fined a lawyer 15 monthly minimum wages over AI-invented case citations, its first sanction for AI misuse, in Auto AC739-2026 of its Civil Chamber. His appeal cited rulings absent from official repositories; challenged, he supplied four further fictitious ones, and admitted using an AI tool.","date":"2026-02","source":"https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2026/02/16/la-corte-suprema-sanciona-por-primera-vez-a-un-abogado-por-uso-indebido-de-inteligencia-artificial-en-proceso-judicial/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia (Sala de Decisión de Tutelas)","text":"A draft verdict was lodged in the digital file before trial's end, and the Supreme Court of Justice held the judge's AI use breached due process. Judicial AI limits permit such tools only exceptionally, as support, never instead of weighing proof or deciding; another court inherits the courtroom AI case.","date":"2026-02-10","source":"https://www.noticiasrcn.com/colombia/insolito-juez-proyecto-una-condena-con-inteligencia-artificial-antes-de-terminar-el-juicio-990364"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Police CCTV monitoring operator","org":"Gobernación del Atlántico","text":"Atlántico's departmental government awarded its Intelligent Emergency and Security System (SIES) to put 414 AI video surveillance cameras, with facial recognition and automatic number-plate reading, in its municipalities. The Sabanalarga police command will watch the smart cameras centrally, piloting first at Santo Tomás's Batalla de Flores on 7 February.","date":"2026-02-02","source":"https://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/barranquilla/atlantico-implementa-sistema-de-videovigilancia-con-inteligencia-artificial-414-camaras-y-45-000-millones-en-inversion-3529134"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Citizen-service agent","org":"Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá","text":"Bogotá's city government has upgraded Chatico, its generative AI citizen assistant, to answer residents and visitors on public services and municipal procedures more precisely and fluently. The virtual agent runs under the Bogotá Capital Digital strategy, managed by the District ICT Office and fed by several district agencies.","date":"2026-01-29","source":"https://bogota.gov.co/mi-ciudad/gestion-publica/chatico-agente-virtual-de-bogota-se-renueva-con-ia-generativa-2026"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) / DNP / MinTIC / MinCiencias","text":"Colombia now enforces ethics rules governing AI in Colombian public entities. The Commission for Communications Regulation (CRC), with the Presidency, MinTIC, MinCiencias and DNP, produced the Guía Ética para la Implementación, Desarrollo y Uso de Sistemas de Inteligencia Artificial en Entidades Públicas de Colombia, setting values for trustworthy public-sector AI, drawing on OECD, UNESCO, United Nations and Alan Turing Institute standards.","date":"2025-12-31","source":"https://www.crcom.gov.co/es/noticias/comunicado-prensa/crc-publica-guia-etica-implementacion-desarrollo-uso-sistemas-inteligencia-artificial"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Colombia","role":"Farmer, agricultural producer","org":"Gobernación de Antioquia","text":"Antioquia's government will give 1,000 producers AI-powered agricultural assistance via its Agro100 pilot with the University of Antioquia and private-sector allies. Data capture, analytics and a chatbot-style helper will link farms to advice, coaching and online trading. Rural Colombia gains an entry into AI in agriculture.","date":"2025-12-26","source":"https://www.elcolombiano.com/antioquia/proyecto-agro100-apoya-con-inteligencia-artificial-productores-agropecuarios-de-antioquia-OE32057867"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Colombia","role":"Interventional cardiologist","org":"Fundación Clínica Shaio","text":"Fundación Clínica Shaio now leads Colombia as the first hospital applying AI-assisted optical coherence tomography (OCT) in haemodynamics work. Scans reveal fine coronary detail, guiding staff on plaque composition and size ahead of stent placement. Better coronary imaging data means sharper treatment calls.","date":"2025-12-17","source":"https://colombiaone.com/2025/12/17/ai-heart-care-colombia-shaio-oct-remote-monitoring/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Colombia","role":"Lawyers","org":"Godoy","text":"Godoy struck Latin America's first firmwide Harvey deal for AI in legal practice, rolling it out to every team. Staff now use it for research, reviewing documents and clearing repetitive work, marking a regional milestone for AI-assisted legal work.","date":"2025-11-25","source":"https://godoy.legal/en/godoy-y-harvey-una-alianza-para-transformar-tecnologicamente-la-practica-legal/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"Colombia","role":"Software support technician, software engineer","org":"Siesa","text":"Colombia's Siesa fields 49% of level-one technical support calls via an AI assistant on AWS. AI customer support here extends to engineering, where AI in customer support tools help staff write and test code; 20% of engineers are trained on them. Siesa's 10,000-plus clients span manufacturing, hospitality, retail and healthcare.","date":"2025-10-10","source":"https://www.elpais.com.co/tecnologia/siesa-empresa-calena-lider-en-tecnologia-explica-como-la-inteligencia-artificial-ya-atiende-casi-la-mitad-de-las-solicitudes-de-soporte-de-la-compania-0950.html"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"HR & People","region":"Colombia","org":"Deel / Edelman DXI","text":"Edelman DXI's research for Deel puts AI in HR adoption at 75 per cent among small and medium enterprises in Colombia. Payroll leads the use cases at 70 per cent, ahead of performance evaluation at 58 per cent, training and development at 57 per cent, and HR information systems at 52 per cent. Seven in ten SMEs plan to raise their HR automation spending.","date":"2025-09-29","source":"https://www.elcolombiano.com/empleos/contenidos/pymes-colombia-ia-recursos-humanos-talento-internacional-HM29526919"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Colombia","role":"Retail staff and customers","org":"Multiplaza Bogotá","text":"Colombia's first mall-based AI personal shopper has launched at Multiplaza Bogotá: MIA (Multiplaza Inteligencia Artificial), built with AI Findr. Shoppers get instant answers and tailored product picks through natural conversation — a retail AI shopping assistant setting a new benchmark for malls nationwide.","date":"2025-09-26","source":"https://www.portafolio.co/negocios/empresas/este-centro-comercial-de-bogota-estrena-personal-shopper-con-ia-para-sus-clientes-640859"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC)","text":"Free AI training for government workers launches in Colombia as MinTIC and the University of Cartagena fill 3,000 places on an 80-hour virtual diploma starting 6 October. Minister Carina Murcia called it central to making artificial intelligence a genuine driver of efficiency, transparency and better citizen services. The scheme ties into CONPES 4144, the country's broader AI policy framework, and reflects a semantic push toward wider public-sector adoption of an artificial intelligence skills programme for public servants.","date":"2025-09-24","source":"https://www.elpais.com.co/educacion/abren-diplomado-gratuito-en-inteligencia-artificial-para-servidores-publicos-asi-puede-inscribirse-2451.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Colombia","role":"Teacher, student","org":"Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (UNIMINUTO)","text":"UNIMINUTO now runs two generative AI agents for AI in higher education across Colombia, reaching over 42,000 students and a thousand-plus teachers. MÍA mentors on emotional, academic and personal matters; LEO, an AI teaching assistant in 349 courses, reportedly cuts lesson-planning effort up to 70 per cent, unverified.","date":"2025-09-19","source":"https://rostrocaribe.com/2025/09/19/uniminuto-innova-con-distancia-4-0-en-colombia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Colombia","role":"Operations manager, supply chain worker","org":"Altipal","text":"A 45% cut to operating costs followed Altipal's launch of ORUS-brAInChat, an AI ecosystem for retail distribution built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Query turnaround at the Colombian distributor fell from 4.2 hours to minutes, this back-office AI tool automating finance, logistics, HR and project teams. Uptake hit 70%, lifting its Net Promoter Score to 78.","date":"2025-09-10","source":"https://www.estamosenlinea.co/2025/09/10/en-14-meses-de-implementacion-altipal-mejoro-sus-costos-operativos-y-procesos-hasta-un-45-gracias-a-la-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Colombia","role":"Teacher, educator","org":"Corporación Unificada Nacional de Educación Superior (CUN)","text":"CUN, with Google, is Colombia's first university centring AI in higher education on teaching and administration, part of wider AI adoption in higher education. Gemini, NotebookLM, Google Classroom and AppSheet span every course for a student body 80 per cent virtual.","date":"2025-08-20","source":"https://www.portafolio.co/negocios/empresas/cun-y-google-impulsan-primer-modelo-educativo-con-inteligencia-artificial-en-colombia-638099"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Tax auditor","org":"Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN)","text":"Machine learning tax collection at Colombia's DIAN targets 8,440 debtors owing 2.2 trillion pesos combined, applying predictive scoring for debt recovery to rank cases by age and repayment likelihood. Officials steer scarce enforcement resources toward the strongest recovery bets. Acting director Luis Eduardo Llinás called it a decisively sharper, more targeted turn in collection strategy.","date":"2025-08-19","source":"https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2025/08/19/la-dian-le-apuesta-a-la-inteligencia-artificial-para-recuperar-mas-de-22-billones-que-le-deben-mas-8000-morosos-como-funciona/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Colombia","role":"Customer service agent","org":"Banco de Occidente","text":"Banco de Occidente, with AWS and Aval Digital Lab, built ARI (Intelligent Responses Assistant), an AI customer service banking tool checking PQRS replies against nine criteria. Sampling rose from 5% to 36% across 4,072 responses, review time fell to 1.3 minutes (17.3x faster), 95% compliance under this AI-assisted support process.","date":"2025-08-18","source":"https://www.tecnogus.com.co/transformar-la-experiencia-del-cliente-con-ia-generativa-la-apuesta-de-banco-de-occidente-y-aws/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Colombia","role":"Foreign trade analyst, software developer, lab researcher","org":"Sucroal","text":"Sucroal, a chemical and biotechnology firm in Colombia's Valle del Cauca, uses AI document processing to clear each export file in ten seconds, down from seven minutes, saving roughly 40 hours monthly across 350 files. Beyond paperwork automation, AI starts over 50% of new software development; plant-floor computer vision counting and machine learning for Aspergillus niger strain improvement are in testing.","date":"2025-08-09","source":"https://www.technocio.com/inteligencia-artificial-con-enfoque-industrial-una-herramienta-para-producir-mejor/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Marketing & Creative","region":"Colombia","role":"Advertising and marketing professionals","org":"Seguros Bolívar","text":"Cinema audiences watching Jurassic World and F1 releases saw two adverts built with generative AI advertising for Seguros Bolívar's 'En Teoría' campaign. Rather than filming traditional scenes, the Colombian insurer generated virtual characters, backdrops and footage through Google Veo 3, an AI-generated advertising approach that trimmed over 100 million pesos from each spot's budget, by the company's own unverified count.","date":"2025-08-04","source":"https://www.mastekhw.com/noticias/seguros-bolivar-incorpora-inteligencia-artificial-en-sus-campanas/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Congress of Colombia","text":"Colombia's Congress toughened penalties for AI-enabled identity theft under Law 2502, amending Article 296 of the Criminal Code so artificial intelligence use turns identity fraud into an aggravating offence. The statute defines deepfakes and gives the government two years to draft an AI regulation policy against such fraud, covering detection tools for the Prosecutor's Office and Police.","date":"2025-07-28","source":"http://www.secretariasenado.gov.co/senado/basedoc/ley_2502_2025.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Colombia","role":"Bus driver, customer service agent","org":"Expreso Brasilia","text":"Fatigue, distraction and speeding trigger instant alerts across more than 500 buses in Expreso Brasilia's commercial and special-service fleet, fitted with ADAS and Driver Status Monitoring hardware under a new AI-based driver monitoring in transportation programme. Satellite tracking spans the same fleet at this major Colombian inter-departmental carrier, while a ChatBot and VoiceBot now field enquiries through its contact centre and terminal kiosks. These moves anchor a broader digital transformation drive built partly on driver fatigue detection systems.","date":"2025-07-25","source":"https://www.semana.com/hablan-las-marcas/articulo/llego-la-inteligencia-artificial-al-transporte-interdepartamental-en-colombia-esta-es-la-experiencia-de-expreso-brasilia/202500/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Colombia","role":"Journalist, editor","org":"La República","text":"A Colombian business daily let ChatGPT run its entire newsroom for one day, producing what its director calls an AI-generated newspaper edition unlike anything the country had seen before. Fernando Quijano, who leads La República, said the chatbot drafted, revised and ranked all 43 stories, 49 photographs and 15 infographics, plus columns, captions and headlines, while Gemini joined ChatGPT in generating the pictures. He described it as the first fully machine-assembled issue from any Ibero-American paper — a milestone for AI in journalism.","date":"2025-07-15","source":"https://www.semana.com/economia/macroeconomia/articulo/el-diario-la-republica-publico-su-primera-edicion-hecha-totalmente-con-inteligencia-artificial-esta-es-la-historia/202545/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Colombia","role":"Journalist, editor","org":"El País de Cali","text":"12 months of verified journalism now feed an AI chatbot news archive tool at El País de Cali, named \"Pregúntale a El País\", which lets readers pose questions and get replies linked back to the original stories. Engineers built this AI-powered news assistant by vectorising the paper's historical reporting and applying embeddings, creating the retrieval foundation behind it. Bosses intend to push the assistant beyond the web onto WhatsApp, and a sponsored-question advertising model is already taking shape.","date":"2025-07","source":"https://www.elpais.com.co/mundo/el-pais-de-cali-marca-la-hoja-de-ruta-para-integrar-la-inteligencia-artificial-en-medios-tradicionales-3136.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Public procurement auditors","org":"Contraloría General de la República","text":"Colombia's Contraloría General de la República is deploying AI in public procurement to spot fraud before contracts get approved. The machine-learning system for contract oversight, developed alongside the University of Antioquia, pulls from over 13,000 data sources via the DIARI unit, spanning 2014-to-2025 contracting records and fiscal sanctions history.","date":"2025-05-19","source":"https://www.elcolombiano.com/negocios/contraloria-y-universidad-de-antioquia-lanzan-modelo-predictivo-JC27437079"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Colombia","role":"Farmer, agricultural producer","org":"Nitrofert","text":"Nitrofert has released IngeDati, an AI in agriculture tool giving Colombian farmers crop-specific nutrition guidance across eight crops: coffee and rice, potato and banana, sugar cane, oil palm, citrus, plus pasture. A transformer-based architecture drives the system, built on recorded fieldwork and agronomic expertise, and farmers reach it via browser on ordinary phones rather than special equipment. Field tests under real growing conditions preceded launch, making this agricultural AI assistant a stand-in for in-person technical visits.","date":"2025-05-14","source":"https://www.agronegocios.co/agricultura/se-lanzo-la-primera-herramienta-de-ia-agricola-que-esta-hecha-en-el-campo-colombiano-4133824"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Government of Colombia (MinTIC/MinCiencias)","text":"MinTIC and MinCiencias filed an AI regulation framework with Congress: risk tiers for AI systems, plus a National AI Authority inside MinCiencias. Julián Molina said it keeps machines within \"parameters for human dignity,\" leaving room for innovation, built on OECD, UNESCO and EU governance standards.","date":"2025-05-07","source":"https://www.infobae.com/america/agencias/2025/05/07/colombia-radica-ley-de-inteligencia-artificial-para-que-este-al-servicio-del-ser-humano/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Prosecutor / criminal investigator","org":"Fiscalía General de la Nación","text":"More than 13 million criminal complaints had piled up in Colombia since 2005 with scant means to reveal common threads — until Fiscal Watson, an AI system built on Big Data technology, gave Fiscalía General de la Nación a route into crime analysis in Colombia at scale. So far it has woven 722 cases into 61 investigation lines spanning Bogotá, Cali, Bucaramanga and Ibagué by matching modus operandi, physical descriptions and vehicles. María Paulina Riveros calls this AI-based criminal case linking proof that patterns once hidden in scattered files can now surface.","date":"2025-04-21","source":"https://noticiascoopercom.co/fiscalia-pone-en-marcha-software-de-inteligencia-artificial-para-sus-investigaciones/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","role":"Judge","org":"Rama Judicial de Colombia / Consejo Superior de la Judicatura","text":"Twenty Colombian judges now draft rulings using Microsoft Copilot on Teams under a Consejo Superior de la Judicatura beta scheme, automating transcription, summarisation and drafting as part of wider AI in judicial administration. Santa Marta's María Victoria Quiñones jumped from four weekly rulings to 20 after adopting it. Organisers aim to widen the rollout to 150 judges and clerks, extending this AI-assisted court drafting effort.","date":"2025-04-07","source":"https://news.microsoft.com/source/latam/features/ai/colombia-justice-system-copilot/?lang=en"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Colombia","role":"Geneticist, bioinformatician, clinician","org":"SURA","text":"At Colombia's Centro de Ciencias Ómicas, Sura applies generative AI in genomic medicine, running Microsoft technology across genetic records from more than 10 thousand patients. Staff now type plain-language questions into a Teams interface for AI genomic data analysis instead of sifting through spreadsheets by hand. This speeds up treatment planning and personalises care across the insurer's five million-strong membership.","date":"2025-03-26","source":"https://news.microsoft.com/source/latam/company-news-es/sura-transforma-la-salud-de-los-colombianos-con-ciencia-e-inteligencia-artificial-generativa/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP) / CONPES","text":"CONPES 4144 sets Colombia AI policy: six pillars spanning ethics, infrastructure, research, talent, risk and adoption, running to 2030. The National Council for Economic and Social Policy approved the document, giving the country a long roadmap for regulating and rolling out artificial intelligence across public and private life.","date":"2025-02-14","source":"https://normograma.mintic.gov.co/mintic/compilacion/docs/CONPES_DNP_4144_2025.htm"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Colombia","role":"Cardiologist, clinician","org":"Fundación Cardioinfantil (LaCardio)","text":"Colombia's first clinical AI unit, marking a new stage in AI in cardiology, has opened at Bogotá's LaCardio (Fundación Cardioinfantil): the Unidad Clínica de Inteligencia Artificial (UCIA). Built on digital twin organ simulations, a Framingham cardiovascular risk score and mortality-prediction models, it aims at sharper heart disease detection and treatment through data-driven clinical decisions.","date":"2025-01-14","source":"https://www.elpais.com.co/colombia/se-inauguro-la-primera-unidad-clinica-de-inteligencia-artificial-en-colombia-1410.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Colombia","org":"Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC)","text":"Binding guidelines on personal data processing in AI systems now apply nationwide after Colombia's Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC), acting as data protection authority, issued Circular 2. Firms building or operating systems involving AI data processing must justify each use of personal information against tests of suitability, necessity, reasonableness and proportionality, while embedding privacy safeguards from the design stage and proving accountability through documented measures. The directive shifts responsibility onto controllers rather than regulators to police compliance case by case.","date":"2024-08-21","source":"https://normograma.mintic.gov.co/mintic/compilacion/docs/circular_superindustria_0002_2024.htm"}]}