{"name":"Applied AI in Guernsey — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Guernsey, 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/guernsey","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":"Guernsey","slug":"guernsey","iso2":"GG","region":"Europe"},"counts":{"entries":10,"deployments":3,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":3,"regulation":4,"industries":6,"countries":1,"linked":10},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Guernsey","org":"Guernsey G8 industry bodies (All-In AI Sprint)","text":"Guernsey's G8 industry bodies opened All-In, the AI Sprint and an AI skills programme, on 1 October with over 1,000 registrants, about one in 32 workers, making above 2,600 reservations. Until 12 November, upwards of 80 organisations host 50-plus complimentary talks, clinics and hackathons for this AI upskilling push.","date":"2026-10-01","source":"https://channeleye.media/1000-islanders-sign-up-as-guernseys-ai-sprint-begins/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Guernsey","org":"The G8 industry bodies of Guernsey","text":"Guernsey's G8 industry bodies drew over 1,000 sign-ups in six days for the island's first AI Sprint, a six-week AI skills training scheme running 1 October to 12 November. More than 50 free events, from talks to hackathons and clinics, welcome beginners and executives in regulated fields, offering artificial intelligence training island-wide.","date":"2026-09-09","source":"https://channeleye.media/guernsey-goes-all-in-ai-sprint-passes-1000-bookings-in-under-a-week/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Guernsey","role":"Teacher","org":"Elizabeth College","text":"Elizabeth College has run a month-long pilot of Inkling, an AI tutor built by UK independent school Clifton College, which recruited the Guernsey side to test and feed back. Instead of supplying solutions outright, this AI-guided study aid applies the Socratic method — probing, never telling — to build critical thinking, and logs where each pupil stands against exam objectives so help arrives tailored. Fran de Garis, English teacher and AI lead, put Year 10 through it for homework beyond class time, with cover lessons a further possibility. De Garis stops short of committing: adoption stays undecided, the hoped-for role an extra option rather than a crutch, and results go to Inkling's developers in September.","date":"2026-06","source":"https://guernseypress.com/news/2026/06/25/elizabeth-college-trialling-new-ai-learning-tutor-tool"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Strategy & Leadership","region":"Guernsey","org":"PwC Channel Islands","text":"PwC's Channel Islands CEO Survey 2026, 'Catalysing competitiveness in the age of AI', polled 45 chief executives across Guernsey and Jersey. Channel Islands AI adoption looks shallow: 58% doubt the firm can shift quickly enough to match technology, and merely 8% see revenue rise and costs fall together. On AI maturity, just 15% have sufficiently many of the seven foundations for success; 80% deem innovation indispensable, yet only 9% claim solid innovation footings.","date":"2026-03-12","source":"https://channeleye.media/channel-islands-ceos-face-pressure-to-accelerate-ai-adoption/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guernsey","org":"Office of the Data Protection Authority","text":"Guernsey's Office of the Data Protection Authority is among 61 regulators behind the Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery and the Protection of Privacy, which the ODPA convened as secretariat and co-chair of the Global Privacy Assembly's International Enforcement Cooperation Working Group. Guernsey AI regulation now bites on systems fabricating lifelike pictures and video of real people who never agreed, minors and vulnerable groups most at risk, and co-signatories want strong safeguards, candour about system capability, reachable takedown routes for damaging material, and added protection for children. Parallel AI image rules form a Crown Dependency Data Protection Advisory on generative AI image creation, co-issued with the Isle of Man Information Commissioner and Jersey's Office of the Information Commissioner, restating that indecent images of a child stay criminal, AI-made or not, compliance resting with whoever builds and uses them. Islanders are told to tighten social-media privacy settings, treat AI apps wanting photographs or personal data warily, grasp their entitlements, and discuss internet safety with children.","date":"2026-02-23","source":"https://www.odpa.gg/news/crown-dependency-data-protection-advisory-generative-ai-image-creation"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Guernsey","org":"Guernsey Financial Services Commission","text":"The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has issued a Policy Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence that openly welcomes AI in financial services — machine learning, large language models, plus agentic and generative systems — as a way to run leaner and shed paperwork. Because the Bailiwick supervises by principle, such technology already fits the regime in force: nobody needs prior sign-off or even a conversation with the Commission, and an AI build is treated no differently from any other technical or strategic undertaking under the Finance Sector Code of Corporate Governance and the Minimum Criteria for Licensing. Nothing bespoke accompanies this AI adoption stance — no rulebook, no guidance, no accreditation or certification standard. Where a firm is unsure how to proceed, the pointer is towards the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NCSC Guidelines.","date":"2026-01-29","source":"https://www.gfsc.gg/news/policy-statement-use-artificial-intelligence"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guernsey","org":"States of Guernsey Committee for Home Affairs","text":"Guernsey wants AI deepfake pornography made a crime, under reforms to the Sexual Offences Law 2020 spanning nine areas of sexual offending. Ministers also propose banning cyberflashing, requesting fabricated images, and holding indecent cartoons of children. Police raised the issue after meeting cases of non-consensual synthetic images current rules failed to cover.","date":"2025-11-27","source":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7836w526w8o"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Guernsey","org":"Office of the Data Protection Authority","text":"Anyone in Guernsey handling personal data now has a ten-point checklist for AI in data protection, published by the ODPA. It explains keeping automated systems transparent and accountable, meeting AI governance requirements under the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 2017.","date":"2025-11-25","source":"https://www.odpa.gg/news/odpa-releases-practical-ten-step-ai-guidance"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Guernsey","role":"Doctor","org":"Medical Specialist Group (MSG)","text":"Ten consultants trialled Heidi, an AI medical scribe now spreading across every outpatient clinic at Guernsey's Medical Specialist Group after a June 2025 pilot, part of a wider shift toward AI-assisted clinical documentation. It listens throughout appointments, generating referral letters and summaries, though staff must still verify and sign each output before it reaches patients.","date":"2025-07-18","source":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2d0y9x297zo"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Guernsey","role":"Teacher, student","org":"The Ladies' College","text":"A custom-built agent now guides Year 7 pupils at Ladies' College in Guernsey through setting their own goals, an early example of AI in education taking hold in the classroom. Staff at the school rely on a locked-down Microsoft Copilot for planning lessons. Daniele Harford-Fox pointed to this shift in explaining why the curriculum has been redesigned around AI's expanding influence on pupils' prospects.","date":"2025-04-18","source":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx201dgp2v9o"}]}