{"name":"Applied AI in Gibraltar — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Gibraltar, 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/gibraltar","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":"Gibraltar","slug":"gibraltar","iso2":"GI","region":"Europe"},"counts":{"entries":7,"deployments":4,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":3,"industries":2,"countries":1,"linked":7},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Gibraltar","role":"Police officer","org":"Royal Gibraltar Police","text":"The Government of Gibraltar has brought Live Facial Recognition into round-the-clock service along the reopened frontier and further priority sites, with the Royal Gibraltar Police as data controller. A heavy volume of stills ran through AI face matching in week one, flagging nobody on a police watchlist. Recordings are kept to prevent and detect crime and protect public safety and national security. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo rates the technology estate, facial recognition included, as holding up well.","date":"2026-07","source":"https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press-releases/post-treaty-security-posture-keeping-gibraltar-safe-5862026-12232"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Gibraltar","org":"Gibraltar Financial Services Commission","text":"Gibraltar's Financial Services Commission has revised its AML/CFT/CPF Guidance Notes to tackle AI risks in AML/CFT/CPF compliance. Three areas gained new provisions: customer risk assessments must retain human sign-off; customer due diligence now flags AI-generated deepfakes; and ongoing monitoring covers AI agents and discriminative or predictive AI models. The changes aim to keep controls resilient as artificial intelligence in financial crime compliance evolves.","date":"2026-07","source":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gibraltar-financial-services-commission_the-gfsc-has-updated-its-amlcftcpf-guidance-activity-7467561141829943298-rW_H"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Gibraltar","role":"Parliamentary researcher","org":"Gibraltar Parliament","text":"Gibraltar Parliament has opened the whole legislative archive — every Hansard volume back to 1969 — through a new AI Hansard search built for public use. Beyond debate transcripts the service reaches Speakers' Rulings and Standing Orders, turning precedent hunting that once required manual research into a single query. This AI-assisted parliamentary research assistant condenses debates neutrally, yet cannot draft communications, speeches or anything original. The interface is already running on parliament.gi.","date":"2026-03-25","source":"https://www.chronicle.gi/parliament-launches-new-digital-search-tool-for-hansard/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Gibraltar","org":"Gibraltar Regulatory Authority","text":"The Gibraltar Regulatory Authority, acting as Information Commissioner, is among 61 signatories to a Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery, convened by the Global Privacy Assembly. Signing sets Gibraltar AI regulation alongside a common line on artificial intelligence that fabricates convincing photographs and video of identifiable people who never consented, children most at risk. Builders and users must install AI imagery safeguards, be candid about capability, pull harmful material on request, and shield children.","date":"2026-02-23","source":"https://www.gra.gi/uploads/documents/data-protection/Press%20Releases/2026/01%20IRD-pressrelease_230226.pdf"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Gibraltar","org":"Gibraltar Regulatory Authority","text":"The Gibraltar Regulatory Authority co-signed a Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery with 60 other data protection authorities on 23 February 2026, addressing AI image generation privacy risks from realistic images and videos of identifiable individuals made without consent. It urges safeguards, transparency, removal mechanisms, and protections for children against AI-generated imagery of identifiable individuals.","date":"2026-02-23","source":"https://www.yourgibraltartv.com/daily/international-data-protection-authorities-issue-joint-statement-on-privacy-risks-of-ai-generated-imagery"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Gibraltar","role":"Debt recovery officer","org":"HM Government of Gibraltar","text":"Gibraltar's Central Arrears Unit now runs on a bespoke AI debt collection database, built after a hiring round for several vacancies yielded a single suitable applicant. Nigel Feetham, Minister for Justice, Trade and Industry, explained the gap; IT Development Manager Karon Cano wrote the model in-house with Steven Fernandez. Machine-assisted arrears tracking replaces hand-keyed spreadsheet extracts and saves one officer at least an hour's work. A chatbot with no outside feeds returns priority-debt listings.","date":"2026-01-30","source":"https://www.chronicle.gi/new-bespoke-ai-system-for-central-arrears-unit-after-recruitment-issues/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Gibraltar","role":"Customs officer","org":"HM Customs Gibraltar","text":"AI risk assessment customs controls now govern Gibraltar's Commercial Gate cargo, built into ASYCUDA Version 4.4. Four tiers of intelligent selectivity - automatic release, documentary checks, physical inspection, post-clearance audit - ease compliant traders through while directing scrutiny to riskier consignments. HM Customs calls this AI-driven customs clearance faster for clean compliance records.","date":"2025-07-01","source":"https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press-releases/hm-customs-gibraltar-launches-asycuda-version-44-to-modernise-border-management-4982025-11034"}]}