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Peru's AI record is led by the state — an AI assistant in three courts, a municipal AI agent in Surco — as Law 31814's obligations became enforceable on 10 September 2026.

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Law 31814 on AI for economic and social development, with its 2025 regulation

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Peru's judiciary runs the CURIA case-law assistant in three superior courts.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru21 Oct 2026

Peru requires public bodies to appoint an AI officer

Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros, Secretaría de Gobierno y Transformación Digital (PCM-SGTD) — Peru AI policy now obliges ministries, public universities and FONAFE state companies to name an Oficial de Inteligencia Artificial (OIA) within 6 months, regional governments within 9 and some municipalities within 12. Directive 002-2026-PCM/SGTD, approved via Resolution 004-2026-PCM/SGTD by the Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros (PCM) through its Secretaría de Gobierno y Transformación Digital, applies from 22 October 2026. This AI governance step implements the National AI Strategy 2026-2030; private firms may opt in.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru21 Oct 2026

Peru sets the profile and duties of public-sector AI officers

Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), Peru — Peru AI regulation places an accountable official inside public bodies: Resolution 004-2026-PCM/SGTD of 19 October 2026 approves Directive 002-2026-PCM/SGTD, fixing the Artificial Intelligence Officer's profile and responsibilities. Each officer finds AI opportunities, drafts an AI Action Plan within the Digital Government Plan, and watches risk. The Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) issued these public-sector AI rules via the Secretariat of Government and Digital Transformation, under Law 31814 and the National AI Strategy 2026–2030.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPeru15 Oct 2026

Comas municipality puts IAlertt crime-detection AI to work

Municipality of Comas — The Municipality of Comas in Lima is using IAlertt, an AI crime detection platform that flags offences in seconds, built by UNI engineering graduate Rudy Salazar Montoya. Linking seven municipal subsystems cut incident handling from 10 to 2 minutes in the first three weeks, the developer says; the model learnt from over 10,000 images of real assaults in Peru. Begun in 2022 with an Indecopi patent and ProInnóvate co-funding, the crime-spotting software targets serenazgo centres and police.

Municipal security (serenazgo) monitoring operatorexitosanoticias.pe
Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorPeru7 Oct 2026

Lima Norte appeal court voids a conviction that cited fictitious case law

Corte Superior de Justicia de Lima Norte (Cuarta Sala Penal de Apelaciones) — An appeals chamber of the Corte Superior de Justicia de Lima Norte annulled a 14-year sentence for sexual touching of a minor, dated 10 June 2026, after the trial bench cited seven non-existent or misattributed rulings from other jurisdictions. Those errors point, at a minimal level of probability, to generative AI use in drafting. A retrial follows; the three trial judges go to the ODANC disciplinary office; AI-assisted judging stays lawful if checked.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru10 Sep 2026

Peru's AI law becomes enforceable for health, education, justice and finance

Government of Peru (Law 31814 regulation) — Law 31814's regulation reached its first compliance deadline, turning Peru AI regulation from promise into enforceable obligation. Anyone developing or deploying AI systems in health, education, justice, security, or economy and finance now answers for them legally under the AI law.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru10 Sep 2026

Peru's public registry Sunarp sets rules for its use of AI

Superintendencia Nacional de los Registros Públicos (Sunarp) — Peru's national public registry authority, Sunarp, has approved an AI policy for public registries by resolution dated 4 September, holding every AI tool to human supervision, accountability, transparency, reliability, security, data protection and non-discrimination. Public registrars keep their judgement, responsibility and answerability for registry decisions, and Sunarp already runs JULIO, an in-house AI platform with modules for registry resolutions and binding precedents.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPeru8 Sep 2026

Lima's Surco district launches Norma, a generative-AI agent for residents

Municipalidad de Santiago de Surco — The Municipality of Santiago de Surco in Lima has introduced Norma, a generative AI municipal agent answering residents day and night on local taxes, procedures, services, activities and the cultural agenda, using only official information from the municipality's database. Residents reach the virtual agent via WhatsApp or the municipal website, and Surco is reportedly Peru's first municipality with an AI virtual agent.

Municipal customer-service officerandina.pe
Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorPeru25 May 2026

SUNAT's AI-backed audits find 34,000 undeclared short-let landlords

Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria (SUNAT) — Peru's tax and customs agency SUNAT has found more than 34,000 people letting property through platforms such as Booking and Airbnb, who are now regularising their taxes. Head Franco Castillo says AI tax enforcement and data analytics already spot patterns of unregistered commercial activity, especially in imports and e-commerce.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPeru6 May 2026

Peru's Juntos cash-transfer programme launches Quechua-speaking AI chatbot

Programa Juntos (Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social) — Peru's Juntos social programme, of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, launched MarIA, an AI chatbot for social programmes answering beneficiaries on WhatsApp day and night in Quechua and Spanish. Built in-house, the WhatsApp assistant passes cases needing personal attention to a user-support technician.

Benefits programme user-support technicianandina.pe
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru29 Apr 2026

National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2026-2030

Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros — Peru's Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros has signed off on a Peru AI policy running to 2030: the Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ENIA) 2026-2030, approved via Resolución Ministerial N.° 152-2026-PCM. Four pillars anchor this national AI strategy — growing AI talent and capabilities, driving AI-based innovation and entrepreneurship, building an ethical and regulatory framework, and encouraging citizen participation and collaboration. Government, academia, private business and civil society are all meant to follow its direction on how artificial intelligence gets built, used and overseen nationwide.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPeru4 Jan 2026

Peru's judiciary puts an AI case-law assistant into three courts

Poder Judicial del Perú — Peru's Poder Judicial has put ChatBot CURIA, an AI case-law assistant, into the National Superior Court of Specialised Criminal Justice, the Superior Court of Justice of Lima and the Superior Court of Justice of Lima Norte. Built in-house by the Supreme Court's Fifth Transitional Chamber, the intelligent search tool covers over 500,000 fully integrated rulings, may reach 6 million jurisprudential records nationally, and answers judges and staff on legislation, case law and doctrine. Judge Ulises Yaya Zumaeta says the final decision-maker must corroborate every AI answer.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPeru27 Sep 2025

Peru's MTC launches AI virtual presenters LucIA and MatIAs

Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) — MTC now fields two AI virtual presenters, LucIA and MatIAs, explaining transport rules, infrastructure work and services to Peruvians. Speaking Spanish plus Quechua, Aimara and Awajún, the pair marks an AI-driven public communication push for wider reach. Staff keep their roles; the figures add to outreach.

Government communicatorgob.pe
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru10 Sep 2025

Peru approves regulation implementing its AI law via DS 115-2025-PCM

Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros (Presidency of the Council of Ministers) — A new Peru AI regulation now governs artificial intelligence through Supreme Decree DS 115-2025-PCM, which puts AI Law 31814 into force with tiered rules matched to risk level. National authority status goes to the PCM's Secretariat of Government and Digital Transformation, while the freshly created National Centre for Digital Innovation and AI (CNIDIA) takes on implementation duties. Sectors deemed high-risk must satisfy demands for algorithmic audits, human oversight, transparency and data protection — together forming the wider AI governance framework now taking shape.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPeru10 Sep 2025

Peru's interior ministry pilots AI video surveillance with 3,282 cameras

Ministry of Interior (Mininter) — Peru's Ministry of Interior is piloting AI video surveillance: 3,282 cameras from the National Police, municipal governments and private firms feed one artificial intelligence camera network. Live footage reaches a PNP command hub, still in soft-launch mode, flagging wanted people and vehicles under arrest warrants. Amper's build costs S/37 million.

Police officergob.pe
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru9 Sep 2025

Supreme Decree 115-2025-PCM approving AI regulation

Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros — Decreto Supremo N° 115-2025-PCM implements Ley N° 31814 through six titles and 36 articles. This Peru AI regulation governs AI systems throughout their lifecycle, requiring human oversight for high-risk systems in justice, finance, health, education and basic services. Under these AI rules, every public entity must adopt an institutional AI policy.

DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPeru7 Aug 2025

Indecopi uses AI to draft resolutions, cutting case time by 36%

INDECOPI (National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Intellectual Property) — A 36% drop in case-handling time has followed INDECOPI's use of AI in consumer protection, at Peru's competition and intellectual property agency. The tool now handles automated rulings drafting for high-volume disputes, starting with real-estate complaints over delayed property handovers, cutting average time from 51.8 to 33.3 minutes per case. INDECOPI reckons wider use across all consumer-protection procedures could free 12,561 hours yearly, building on ethics rules issued under Resolution 062-2025-GEG/INDECOPI in May 2025.

Legal analystgob.pe
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorPeru29 Jun 2025

Peruvian judiciary launches Mikuna IA pilot for child support cases

Poder Judicial del Perú (Peruvian Judiciary) — Two Lima courthouses now run Mikuna IA, an AI child support platform built by Peru's Judicial Branch (Poder Judicial) and technology firm TIMIX Perú under the Superior Court. It scans paperwork like birth certificates automatically and drafts resolutions within seconds instead of manual review. This AI-powered pensión de alimentos case management push targets a heavy, sensitive backlog.

Judgegob.pe
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru30 May 2025

Guidelines for ethical use of AI at Indecopi

Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (Indecopi) — Peru's Indecopi bound itself to human oversight of every algorithm it builds, adopting new rules on AI regulation in public agencies. Resolución N.° 000062-2025-GEG/INDECOPI enacted the Lineamientos para el Uso Ético de la Inteligencia Artificial, setting transparency, security, fairness, privacy and accountability duties across its AI governance.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru29 Apr 2025

Ley 32314 modifying penal code for AI crimes

Congreso de la República del Perú — Peru enacted Ley N° 32314 on 29 April 2025, folding AI use into the Código Penal (Decree 635) and the Ley de Delitos Informáticos (Law 30096) as grounds for tougher sentencing. This Peru AI regulation lets judges add up to a third onto prison terms whenever deepfakes or comparable tools drive crimes like fraud, defamation, child pornography or copyright breaches. The reform marks Peru's first statutory move treating AI regulation as a sentencing multiplier rather than a separate offence category.

RegulationGovernment & Public SectorPeru5 Jul 2023

Ley 31814 promoting use of artificial intelligence

Congreso de la República del Perú — Peru AI regulation now rests on Ley N° 31814, backing artificial intelligence uptake while putting human rights and individual welfare first. Required tenets: monitored safety, ethical design, privacy protection, transparent operation. Authority sits with the Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros, via its Secretaría de Gobierno y Transformación Digital, under this AI governance framework.

Finance & Insurance

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Interbank is the first Peruvian bank with a direct Anthropic agreement, deploying Claude to staff.

Evidence of adoptionFinance & InsurancePeru15 Oct 2026

Credicorp runs more than 100 AI use cases across the group

Credicorp (BCP) — Credicorp, owner of BCP, has more than 100 AI use cases live and over 400 in the pipeline, while more than 90% of employees work with AI tools, group AI head Rafael Lémor reports. Banking automation now covers 45% to 60% of customer-service processes at subsidiaries. Digital bank iO serves upwards of 100,000 users conversationally, and Mibanco's WhatsApp channel has over 25,700 monthly active users.

DeploymentFinance & InsurancePeru12 Oct 2026

Peruvian lender Capitalia launches SOFIA AI for small-business credit

Capitalia — Capitalia, a Peruvian lender to micro and small firms with over S/ 100 million in trust assets, has launched SOFIA, an in-house AI credit assessment system covering origination, legal and risk review, fiduciary structuring, disbursement and monitoring. The company claims SOFIA writes an investment memo in ten minutes instead of weeks, but a human committee decides. Loans rest on real estate in a CORFID-run trust under SBS oversight; CEO Alonso Bringas says the lending AI sharpens judgement without replacing it.

Credit analystlarepublica.pe
DeploymentFinance & InsurancePeru11 Aug 2026

Interbank becomes the first Peruvian bank with a direct Anthropic deal

Interbank — Interbank has become the first Peruvian bank with a direct Anthropic agreement, deploying Claude Enterprise to an initial group of staff including knowledge workers and specialist technology teams. Training and support programmes accompany this enterprise AI in banking rollout to keep adoption responsible, the bank says. Claudio Querol, vice-president for data, analytics and AI, plans to extend the tool gradually to more staff and processes.

Corporate bankerforbes.pe
DeploymentFinance & InsurancePeru18 Dec 2025

Mapfre Peru uses AI for vehicle inspections under one second

Mapfre Perú — Under one second: that is now the approval time for 60% of AI vehicle inspections at Mapfre Peru, down from a wait of up to five days under the old manual process. Computer vision and automated decision models inside the insurer's Control Expert platform drive the instant automated vehicle inspection approval. Mapfre credits the overhaul with reshaping its claims workflow and boosting customer satisfaction, though these are the company's own figures.

Insurance inspectormapfre.com.pe
DeploymentFinance & InsurancePeru17 Nov 2025

Rímac Seguros deploys AI agent for one-minute claims processing

Rímac Seguros — Rímac Seguros now finishes vehicle insurance claims in one minute flat, down from a 48-hour manual slog, via AI claims processing. Peru's biggest insurer, over 30% market share, built a chatbot: drivers snap photos, share video, log the incident, and instantly pull coverage, deductible and repair shop info. This AI agent went live in November 2025.

Claims adjusterinfomercado.pe
DeploymentFinance & InsurancePeru3 Nov 2025

Mibanco launches AI conversational banking on WhatsApp

Mibanco — Mibanco, part of Grupo Credicorp and Peru's leading microfinance lender, has introduced AI conversational banking on WhatsApp, built with Amazon Web Services. Since launching by November 2025, the service has let customers open digital accounts, check balances and view product details in the chat; a February 2026 stage adds credit applications, QR payments and transfers. Mibanco aims for its generative AI banking channel to resolve 90% of queries, with only 10% passed to human agents.

Customer service agentelcomercio.pe
DeploymentFinance & InsurancePeru9 Jul 2025

BCP adds generative AI to Clara assistant on WhatsApp

Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP) — Banco de Crédito del Perú wired generative AI into Clara, its WhatsApp helper, a Peru banking chatbot leap dated July 2025. Clara reads urgency or frustration, catches a stolen-card alert needing swift handling, and untangles messy, open-ended loan or account questions with smoother, humanlike answers. BCP already topped Peru's lenders in running AI via phone banking, a generative AI banking assistant first this launch extends.

Customer service agentelcomercio.pe

Healthcare & Life Sciences

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The health ministry says it will add AI diagnostic support to radiology at Lima hospitals.

RegulationHealthcare & Life SciencesPeru6 Oct 2026

Peru's health ministry adopts rules for safe, ethical AI use

Ministry of Health (Minsa) — The Ministry of Health (Minsa) has adopted Resolución Ministerial N.º 903-2026/MINSA, Peru AI regulation governing how the ministry buys, builds, runs and retires AI-based systems. Health minister Luis Williams Dyer Fernández signed the guidelines in Lima on 2 October. Each step must show accountability, explainability, inclusion, security, ethics, sustainability and transparency, with the Oficina General de Tecnologías de la Información enforcing these health-sector AI rules.

DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesPeru12 Jan 2026

Peru's health ministry to add AI radiology support at Lima hospitals

Ministerio de Salud del Perú (Minsa) — Peru's health ministry will modernise radiology at the María Auxiliadora and Cayetano Heredia hospitals and Lima Norte network facilities with AI radiology diagnostic support for more than four million people. Health minister Luis Quiroz accepted the equipment from AstraZeneca Peru under a cooperation agreement, for faster remote breast diagnosis within the ministry's Digital Hospital.

Radiologistandina.pe
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesPeru26 Sep 2025

Lima deploys AI-powered X-ray units for TB diagnosis

Dirección de Redes Integradas de Salud (Diris) Lima Centro — Five portable AI X-ray TB diagnosis machines are now running across Lima clinics under Diris Lima Centro, Peru's health network, aiming to catch tuberculosis sooner. This AI-assisted tuberculosis screening reads each scan in 2 to 3 minutes, spotting fibrosis, nodules and other lung abnormalities alongside TB. Global Fund cash backs the rollout, live at five locations so far, among them San Juan de Lurigancho, site of 1,270 TB cases in 2025.

Radiologistgob.pe
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesPeru26 May 2025

Lima hospital uses AI to spot lung cancer in under a minute

Hospital María Auxiliadora — Sixty seconds or less: that is the new benchmark at Hospital María Auxiliadora in Lima, where an AI lung cancer detection tool now scans chest X-rays for signs of pulmonary neoplasia. Built through a partnership between Peru's Ministry of Health (MINSA), AstraZeneca and QURE.AI, the software drafts abnormality reports on its own, cutting the wait for early screening of lung and other pulmonary conditions. Clinicians gain a faster first read, powered by this AI-assisted chest X-ray screening approach.

Radiologistgob.pe
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesPeru30 Jan 2025

Hospital Carrión del Callao adds AI-powered MRI and mammography

Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión — Callao's Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión now runs an AI-powered MRI scanner, its first, plus a new AI mammography unit, both part of a medical imaging AI expansion. Tumours get caught at clinical stages 1 and 2, where survival odds top 90%, and the scanner speeds up readings for neurology, oncology, cardiology and orthopaedics. Priced above 21 million soles, it should cover 19,710 patients yearly.

Radiologistgob.pe
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesPeru2025-01

INEN adds AI to MRI scans for faster cancer diagnosis

Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas (INEN) — AI MRI cancer diagnosis at Peru's National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN) has cut 1.5 Tesla scan times from 50 to 30-40 minutes. Embedded software adjusts for patient motion automatically, removing the need to stay still. This AI-assisted MRI scanning setup now handles roughly 1,000 studies monthly.

Radiologistgob.pe

Manufacturing, Energy & Resources

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Chinalco runs its Toromocho copper mine from an AI-driven operations centre in Lima.

DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesPeru7 Oct 2026

Acciona opens an AI control centre for its Peruvian power-transmission network

Acciona — Acciona now runs an AI grid control centre from its San Isidro offices in Lima, pooling live network-status data for its Peruvian electricity-transmission assets so faults get a quicker response. Those concessions cover eight ProInversión-awarded projects, over 1,000 kilometres of high and very high voltage lines and 28 substations, backed by investment commitments near US$800 million. Energy and mines minister Guillermo Shinno attended the opening of this power-grid monitoring hub.

Grid control-centre operatordemocrata.es
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesPeru19 Feb 2026

Chinalco runs Toromocho copper mine from AI-driven Lima operations centre

Minera Chinalco Perú — Minera Chinalco Perú has finished rolling out its Integrated Operations Management Centre (GIO), an AI mine operations centre heavy on analytics that now runs the entire Toromocho copper mine production chain under a hybrid organisational model. Staff are being trained in analysis, automation and remote operation.

Mine operations controllerdesdeadentro.pe
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesPeru13 Aug 2025

Gold Fields completes AI safety pilot at Cerro Corona mine in Peru

Gold Fields — Gold Fields ran a 10-month AI safety pilot for mining at its Cerro Corona site in Cajamarca, now certified by Chile's CIPTEMIN. SafetyMind's computer vision platform scans existing cameras, flagging unsafe conditions in real time. This makes Gold Fields the first Latin American miner with an independently verified AI preventive safety system, under its Seguridad 4.0 strategy.

Mine safety officerportalinnova.cl
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesPeru18 Jun 2025

Pluspetrol completes pilot of autonomous EXR-2 robot at Pisco gas plant

Pluspetrol — Peru's Pluspetrol has finished testing EXR-2, an autonomous unit built for AI gas leak detection, at the Camisea consortium's Pisco fractionation site. Thermal imaging, precision sensors and smart navigation let it spot hot spots, pick up unusual noise and send live readings to a control room, plus build a 3D map for autonomous plant inspection.

Refinery operatorminart.pe
DeploymentManufacturing, Energy & ResourcesPeru7 May 2025

Buenaventura expands YupAI mining software to El Brocal and Uchucchacua

Compañía de Minas Buenaventura — Compañía de Minas Buenaventura is rolling its self-built AI mining software, YupAI, out to two further sites, El Brocal and Uchucchacua, having already proven the tool at San Gabriel. Its name comes from the Quechua verb for 'to count', and it applies open-source algorithms toward AI-driven resource estimation, projecting key variables with no need for new drilling or laboratory work. That earlier deployment alone modelled 390 drill holes absent chemical assays, sparing roughly six months plus the extra expense.

Mining geologistminart.pe

Education & Training

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DeploymentEducation & TrainingPeru25 Nov 2025

Universidad Autónoma del Perú launches AI platform URUK

Universidad Autónoma del Perú — Peru's Universidad Autónoma del Perú has introduced URUK, an AI-powered virtual learning platform built and trained entirely in-house, without relying on an external vendor. Fed by the institution's own library holdings, the system delivers automatic summaries, indexes texts, answers queries instantly and converts readings into podcasts for study, applying the Cornell note-taking method. This puts AI-assisted studying tools at the centre of the university's academic strategy.

University studentdiarioelnoticiero.com
DeploymentEducation & TrainingPeru2 Jul 2025

San Marcos University launches ChatGPT tool to combat harassment

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) — Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos built BEA, an AI harassment support tool for spotting warning signs, learning rights and finding reporting channels. MediaLab, its research group, coded the assistant on ChatGPT, distributed via OpenAI's GPT Store. Short for Bienestar Estudiantil contra el Hostigamiento, BEA is among Peru's earliest campus uses of generative AI against harassment.

University studentelperfil.pe

Business Operations

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Evidence of adoptionBusiness OperationsPeru21 Sep 2026

AI use reaches 17.3% of Peru's working-age population, Microsoft finds

Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026) — AI adoption in Peru reached 17.3% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 0.9 points above 16.4% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.

HR & People

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DeploymentHR & PeoplePeru11 Aug 2025

COSAPI deploys AI system for HR recruitment and training

COSAPI — Peruvian builder COSAPI now screens, trains and evaluates job candidates through COSAPIA, an HR platform marking one of the earliest large-scale uses of AI in human resources recruitment nationwide. A WhatsApp chatbot answers queries, cross-checks paperwork against official databases, and fires off notifications and reports unattended — automated candidate screening replacing manual work.

HR professionalproactivo.com.pe

Retail & Consumer

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DeploymentRetail & ConsumerPeru16 Jul 2025

Jockey Plaza launches MIA AI assistant for visitors

Jockey Plaza — Lima's Jockey Plaza now runs MIA, an AI virtual assistant for shopping malls, built with AIFINDR to answer visitor questions instantly via WhatsApp and the mall's site. Shoppers get store directions, tailored suggestions, and event or promotion updates from the chatbot. Management calls it the region's first mall with this kind of automated visitor guidance.

Shopping assistantrumboeconomico.com

Technology & Software

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RegulationTechnology & SoftwarePeru9 Jul 2025

Peru approves its first technical standard for AI management systems

Instituto Nacional de Calidad (Inacal) — NTP-ISO/IEC 42001:2025 gives Peru its first technical standard for AI management systems, set by the National Institute of Quality (Inacal) under the Ministry of Production. Based on ISO/IEC 42001, it guides organisations in building and improving such a system, covering oversight, targets, hazard evaluation and impact review — Peru's new yardstick for artificial intelligence governance.

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