Trinidad and To­ba­go has the foun­da­tion to be­come a re­gion­al play­er in ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence, but the coun­try must ur­gent­ly strength­en its poli­cies and safe­guards as it moves ahead with am­bi­tious plans for large-scale AI in­fra­struc­ture, says the lo­cal re­searcher be­hind the coun­try’s lat­est glob­al AI as­sess­ment.

Coun­try re­searcher Shur­land George, a ca­pac­i­ty de­vel­op­ment spe­cial­ist work­ing at the in­ter­sec­tion of ed­u­ca­tion, da­ta and ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence, said the find­ings of the Glob­al In­dex on Re­spon­si­ble AI (GI­RAI) 2026 should be viewed as a start­ing point for na­tion­al ac­tion.

Orig­i­nal­ly from T&T and cur­rent­ly based in Toron­to, Cana­da, he pos­sess­es ex­ten­sive pro­fes­sion­al ex­pe­ri­ence span­ning in­ter­na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment, re­search and in­sti­tu­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty build­ing.