{"name":"Applied AI in Puerto Rico — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Puerto Rico, 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/puerto-rico","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":"Puerto Rico","slug":"puerto-rico","iso2":"PR","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":15,"deployments":3,"evidenceImpact":1,"evidenceAdoption":5,"regulation":6,"industries":6,"countries":1,"linked":15},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS)","text":"The Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) has opened AI training for government employees alongside cyber-threat lessons for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Staff learnt the official AI-use rules: classify data, manage risk, keep people checking AI outputs, use authorised tools, avoid free platforms. The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined an opening module on how attackers break in. Executive director Poincaré Díaz Peña wants responsible implementation rather than regulation, with more public-sector AI workshops through October.","date":"2026-10-12","source":"https://noticel.com/noticias/20261012/prits-adiestra-a-empleados-publicos-sobre-ciberseguridad-y-uso-de-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Colmena66 (Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust)","text":"Colmena66, the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust's entrepreneurship programme, finds AI adoption among entrepreneurs at 53.7%, with 19.3% more planning to follow, in its State of the Business Community 2025 report, presented at the Boricua Emprende Fest on 4 September. Business AI use centres on innovation, process automation, and marketing and data analysis. It rests on a convenience sample of 555 entrepreneurs gathered from September 2025 to May 2026, so it does not represent all Puerto Rican entrepreneurs.","date":"2026-09-07","source":"https://newsismybusiness.com/es/los-emprendedores-puertorriquenos-adoptan-la-ia-y-luchan-con-el-capital/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico","text":"Puerto Rico's Ley 163-2026 gives AI image rights explicit footing by folding deepfakes and cloned voices into the Right to One's Own Image Law. Jenniffer González Colón's amendment defines 'image' to catch digitally altered audiovisual, auditory or multimedia output mimicking likeness, voice or identifiable traits, extending deepfake likeness protection beyond older standards. Existing fines and damages still apply.","date":"2026-08-02","source":"https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2026/08/03/gobernadora-firma-ley-que-amplia-la-proteccion-del-derecho-a-la-propia-imagen-frente-a-la-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico","text":"Governor Jenniffer González Colón's Ley 140-2026 folds AI content in cybersecurity continuing education into Puerto Rico's Cybersecurity Law, an artificial intelligence coursework requirement for government workers. The mandate pairs AI instruction with privacy, system defence, data handling, cyberattack prevention and responsible adoption of new tools.","date":"2026-07-22","source":"https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2026/07/24/jenniffer-gonzalez-firma-leyes-sobre-inteligencia-artificial-agricultura-y-beneficios-para-familias-de-policias"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Puerto Rico","role":"Radiologist","org":"Centro Médico de Puerto Rico (ASEM)","text":"Centro Médico de Puerto Rico's emergency room, run by the island's Medical Services Administration (ASEM), has brought in AI-assisted CT scanning, part of roughly US$1.8 million in investment. ASEM's director says the RapidAI platform will process images and aid clinical analysis, backing radiologists and doctors while leaving clinical judgement with them.","date":"2026-07-20","source":"https://www.metro.pr/estilo-vida/2026/07/20/centro-medico-estrena-ct-scan-con-inteligencia-artificial/?outputType=amp"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico","text":"Ley 105-2026, signed by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, a Puerto Rico AI regulation, obliges campaign ads, notices or messages fully or partly AI-made or AI-modified to show plain, visible labels. Election AI rules amend Campaign Finance Law and Electoral Code, treating AI as technology doing human-intelligence work, including generative systems for text, images, audio, video or other digital material.","date":"2026-06-10","source":"https://www.elvocero.com/gobierno/convierten-en-ley-medida-que-obligar-identificar-comunicaci-n-electoral-creada-con-inteligencia-artificial/article_8bb0bcd5-cb3e-408a-9c82-3ab6d9f2e066.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Puerto Rico","role":"Teachers","org":"Puerto Rico Department of Education","text":"Puerto Rico's Department of Education handed Microsoft 365 Copilot to 6,000 teachers and administrative staff in a 2025 rollout, feeding a broader push for AI in education, and 15,000 licences now run across the system. Staff lean on the tool, an AI teaching assistant, to draft lesson plans, build assessments, write grading rubrics and adjust materials for neurodivergent learners. Sessions to train personnel carry on into year-end.","date":"2025-11","source":"https://news.microsoft.com/source/latam/features/ia/puerto-rico-educacion-inteligencia-artificial-microsoft-copilot/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Senado de Puerto Rico","text":"23-3: that margin let Puerto Rico's Senado pass House Bill 347 (PC 347), fixing the territory's first framework for AI policy in government agencies. PRITS — the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service — wins power under amended Law/Ley 75-2019 to steer algorithmic tools across over 100 central bodies. Agencies need PRITS sign-off via an AI authorisation request before launching any automated decision-making tool; La Fortaleza reviews it next.","date":"2025-11-12","source":"https://periodicovision.com/aprueba-nueva-politica-publica-sobre-uso-de-ia-en-el-gobierno/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Puerto Rico","role":"Customer service agents","org":"Liberty Puerto Rico","text":"At Liberty Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, an AI customer service telecom platform screens each invoice ahead of dispatch, holding precision at 99.9%. LiBi manages payments and requests, sensors detect internet glitches within two minutes, and chatbots back up phone support teams. Managers link these AI billing accuracy improvements to healthier NPS and churn nearly halved.","date":"2025-10","source":"https://eyboricua.com/liberty-integra-inteligencia-artificial-para-optimizar-procesos-y-mejorar-la-experiencia-del-cliente/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Senado de Puerto Rico","text":"Custom GPT models were the focus for staff at the Senado de Puerto Rico, who each built their own tailored chatbot in an AI training for legislative staff held 27 August 2025. Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz backed the session, coordinated by Vice President Carmelo Ríos Santiago, titled 'Inteligencia Artificial más Inteligencia Emocional, crea tu GPT personalizado'. Employees practised generative AI for drafting emails, running social media, and making images and audio, reflecting broader interest in AI in legislative offices.","date":"2025-08-27","source":"https://wipr.pr/senado-capacita-a-empleados-sobre-herramientas-de-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan","text":"María V. Irizarry Centeno and Anissa Michelle Bonilla Irizarry face a $1,000 penalty from Judge Larissa N. Ortiz Modestti, who caught six bogus Supreme Court precedents fabricated within their filing through AI-generated fake legal citations. Officials at the Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan in Puerto Rico describe it as the territory's inaugural sanction targeting AI hallucinated case law inside legal proceedings. The Supreme Court will decide if additional punishment against the attorneys is merited.","date":"2025-08-22","source":"https://www.newspr.com/article/tribunal-sanciona-a-abogadas-por-citar-casos-falsos-con-inteligencia-artificial"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"SHRM-PR and Aon","text":"Society for Human Resource Management Puerto Rico chapter (SHRM-PR) and Aon's joint survey shows 54% of Puerto Rican businesses now run pilot projects testing AI adoption in Puerto Rico, yet just 4% have built structured programmes managing the technology's rollout. This gap between quick experimentation and formal AI pilot projects points to a business sector still working out how to scale early trials into lasting systems.","date":"2025-08-10","source":"https://www.elnuevodia.com/english/business/story/businesses-in-puerto-rico-are-embracing-artificial-intelligence/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico","text":"Puerto Rico's Tribunal Supremo has written artificial intelligence into new Professional Conduct Rules, adding Rule 1.19 on technological competence and diligence to govern AI use in legal practice. Lawyers must grasp what AI tools can and cannot safely do, check machine-generated material with care, and never file AI-produced court documents unless a human has independently confirmed them first. Effective 1 January 2026, the measure makes Puerto Rico the first US jurisdiction with a freestanding ethics rule of this kind.","date":"2025-06-17","source":"https://poderjudicial.pr/tribunal-supremo-aprueba-las-nuevas-reglas-de-conducta-profesional-para-la-abogacia-y-la-notaria-en-puerto-rico/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Senado de Puerto Rico","text":"Puerto Rico AI regulation took a step forward when the Senado passed Senate Bill 68, giving rise to the Ley de Inteligencia Artificial del Gobierno de Puerto Rico. This government AI policy bars agencies from deploying any AI tool that fails ethical benchmarks once 1 January 2026 arrives, with compliance checked through recurring biennial audits. A fresh post, Oficial de Inteligencia Artificial, sits inside the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) alongside a new AI Advisory Committee, and PRITS itself must now draft rules guiding safe, workable AI rollout across public bodies. The proposal heads next to the House of Representatives.","date":"2025-04-07","source":"https://aldia.microjuris.com/2025/04/04/nueva-estructura-gubernamental-para-regular-la-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Puerto Rico","org":"Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio (DDEC)","text":"Over 120 civil servants from eight Puerto Rico agencies received AI training for government employees during the week of 7 April 2025, via 'Inteligencia Artificial para el Gobierno' (AI for Government). Microsoft and PRITS backed the Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio (DDEC), which assembled staff from Education, Health, Family, Treasury, Public Security, Housing, Justice, the Planning Board, Budget Office, Medical Services Administration and Police. Coursework covered machine-learning basics, public-agency applications and hands-on tool practice — an AI for Government course others might replicate.","date":"2025-04-07","source":"https://wipr.pr/ironhack-ofrece-curso-de-inteligencia-artificial-a-servidores-publicos/"}]}