{"name":"Applied AI in Cuba — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Cuba, 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/cuba","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":"Cuba","slug":"cuba","iso2":"CU","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":10,"deployments":7,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":3,"industries":5,"countries":1,"linked":10},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Cuba","role":"Electricity dispatcher","org":"Empresa Electrica de La Habana","text":"Empresa Electrica de La Habana will hand dispatchers AI blackout scheduling tools built with mathematicians at the Facultad de Matematicas of the Universidad de La Habana. The utility says the decision-support software, shown to President Miguel Diaz-Canel, should even out how circuits are rotated and push notices to households over Telegram. Nothing is switched on yet: the company describes AI-driven outage rotation as work still under way, aimed at transparency and fairer sharing of cuts.","date":"2026-08-07","source":"https://www.radiorebelde.cu/chequea-presidente-diaz-canel-situacion-electrica-de-la-habana-07082026/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Cuba","role":"Television presenter","org":"Television Cubana","text":"Television Cubana has fielded two AI-generated presenters, Ava and Chico, across trailers for the music show Cuerda Viva, appearing as announcers, or reading round-ups and listings. Cari Rojas, communication director of Television Cubana, dates Ava to a Cuerda Viva festival; Ana Rabasa, who runs the show, brought in Chico later. Felito Ruiz, the team's designer, assembled both on no-cost software of limited scope, and calls these virtual TV hosts wholly invented looks, resting on no prior pattern.","date":"2026-04","source":"https://www.perlavision.cu/cuerdaviva-tvcubana-ia/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cuba","org":"Cuban National Assembly","text":"An AI ethics commission now sits inside Cuba's General Law of Science, Technology and Innovation, covering artificial intelligence research oversight for the first time. The law further binds sector-specific policy to national development goals. Eight chapters and three complementary norms complete the package.","date":"2025-12-18","source":"http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2025/12/18/parlamento-cubano-aprueba-ley-general-de-ciencia-tecnologia-e-innovacion/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cuba","role":"Identity verification officer","org":"Government of Cuba","text":"A national push for AI identity verification in Cuba began with the July 2025 debut of Soberanía, a unified digital services hub built by the Cuban government. Residents photograph themselves and their ID card inside the Mi Identidad app, feeding both images into facial-recognition software that checks their details before a digital identity is issued, all under watch from the Ministry of Interior's identification directorate. This machine-driven approach to confirming who's who started with 15 online offerings, from civil registry paperwork to replacement ID cards, and had drawn over 111,500 visits, 20,000 signed-up users and 8,200 verified digital identities by December 2025.","date":"2025-07-10","source":"https://www.granma.cu/cuba/2025-12-16/soberania-la-ventanilla-digital-del-gobierno-para-tramites-y-servicios-en-linea-16-12-2025-21-12-28"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cuba","org":"Tribunal Supremo Popular (Supreme Popular Court of Cuba)","text":"Cuba's Supreme Popular Court now has judicial guidance on AI in judicial justice, penned by judge Yojanier Sierra Infante. A single limit governs everything: artificial intelligence stays a supporting aid within the court system, forbidden from standing in for the magistrate or judge's own verdict.","date":"2025-07-09","source":"https://www.tsp.gob.cu/el-uso-de-la-inteligencia-artificial-ia-en-la-justicia-judicial-principios-generales-que-facilitan"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Cuba","role":"Lawyer","org":"University of Cienfuegos / National Organisation of Collective Law Offices","text":"Cienfuegos lawyers now trial Alic.IA, an AI legal assistant from University of Cienfuegos academics, ahead of expansion across Cuba. It works as both a chatbot for legal practice queries on Cuban criminal law and a system drafting over 60 document types, approved after debuting at the Abogacía 2025 congress in March, following a pilot since late 2024.","date":"2025-07-06","source":"https://www.radioreloj.cu/noticias-radio-reloj/vision-pais-es/herramienta-de-inteligencia-artificial-para-abogados-penalistas-en-cienfuegos/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Cuba","role":"Hospital administrator","org":"Hospital Universitario Docente Vladimir y Ilich Lenin","text":"Hospital Universitario Docente Vladimir y Ilich Lenin in Holguín runs AI hospital administration for governance choices: tracking supply stocks, scheduling admissions and shifts, flagging vulnerable patients via dashboards that shorten waits. Cardiologist José Leandro Pérez Guerrero told ACN this mirrors AI adoption in Cuban hospitals.","date":"2025-06-04","source":"https://www.acn.cu/medio-ambiente/aplican-en-hospital-de-holguin-inteligencia-artificial"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Cuba","role":"Radiologist","org":"Hospital Militar Comandante Manuel Piti Fajardo, Hospital Provincial Arnaldo Milián Castro, Hospital Oncológico Dr. Celestino Hernández Robau","text":"Three Villa Clara hospitals in Cuba pilot AI medical imaging from Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas. Hospital Militar Comandante Manuel Piti Fajardo reads X-rays for COVID-19, Hospital Provincial Arnaldo Milián Castro flags lung nodules, and Hospital Oncológico Dr. Celestino Hernández Robau screens breast masses. As a second reader, these AI diagnostic imaging systems surface patterns a radiologist might miss.","date":"2025-02-17","source":"https://vanguardia.cu/villa-clara/34813-en-villa-clara-inteligencia-artificial-al-servicio-de-la-salud"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Cuba","role":"Process engineer","org":"Cementos Cienfuegos S.A.","text":"Cementos Cienfuegos S.A., Cuba's state-owned cement plant, now runs AI process efficiency diagnosis across its industrial operations. This AI in cement manufacturing case is one of several documented across Cuban industry.","date":"2025-02","source":"https://www.ipscuba.net/salud-y-ciencia/cuba-promueve-crear-sistemas-de-inteligencia-artificial-propios/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cuba","org":"Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba and Ministry of Communications (MINCOM)","text":"Six pillars frame the Estrategia para el Desarrollo y Uso de la Inteligencia Artificial, folded by Cuba's Council of Ministers into the wider Política de Transformación Digital under the Ministry of Communications: ethics and law, workforce skills, applications, government use, research, and public messaging. Binding rules demand safe, explainable, fair, privacy-conscious systems under this AI development strategy Cuba has adopted. Farming, healthcare, schooling, transport, water, tourism, manufacturing and government bodies top the sectors marked for artificial intelligence deployment.","date":"2024-05-29","source":"http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2024/06/12/en-pdf-politica-para-la-transformacion-digital-la-agenda-digital-y-la-estrategia-para-el-uso-de-la-inteligencia-artificial/"}]}