Catalogue: AI in the Public Sector clear
Guatemalan municipalities, led by Guatemala City, awarded at least Q69.9M ($9.1M) across 122 AI video-surveillance contracts since 2022 — 91% with no …
Idaho's Dept. of Health and Welfare used a secretive spreadsheet formula, later tied to the Supports Intensity Scale, to set Medicaid budgets …
Chicago Police scored nearly 400,000 people on an algorithmic gun-violence risk list from 2012-2019. RAND's independent evaluation found no reduction in violence, …
NYC's MyCity Business chatbot, launched October 2023 on Microsoft Azure AI, was found in March 2024 to routinely give illegal advice on …
The first U.S. government task force on algorithmic transparency, created by New York City's Local Law 49, could not agree on a …
Rustavi City Hall, Georgia launched C-Bot, an AI chatbot built with UNDP and EU support, answering citizens' and businesses' questions on municipal …
Armenia's State Revenue Committee is piloting an AI tool, built by Interpretable AI and Daniam LLC with the American University of Armenia …
On 9 August 2026 Bolivia's Ministry of Planning launched BolivIA, a state-built AI system on government infrastructure letting officials and citizens search …
Biosecurity New Zealand began a four-month pilot testing generative AI to help draft import health standards, with the minister stressing final decisions …
Mexico's Supreme Court launched Sor Juana, an AI chatbot answering plain-language questions about one minister's draft rulings — but it remains a …
Tonga's Prime Minister's Office contracted Aninver, funded by the World Bank, to build TongaGPT, an AI assistant for citizen services as part …
Michigan's MiDAS system auto-adjudicated unemployment fraud claims with no human review (2013-2015), wrongly accusing 34,000+ people at an ~85% error rate; a …
South Africa published its draft National AI Policy for public comment on 10 April 2026, then withdrew it 16 days later after …
Colombia's ICT Ministry announced six generative-AI models in July 2026 covering citizen complaints, contractor payments, labour certificates and telecom sanctions, targeting 10-15 …
New Zealand's Ministry for Regulation used an LLM to triage 22,821 submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill (88% opposed) into support/oppose categories, …
Belgrade deployed 1,000+ Huawei-built AI cameras from 2017. Serbia's data-protection commissioner twice ruled the impact assessment unlawful; 2024 orders were still sized …
Iran built the Nazer app for the public to report women's hijab 'violations' by vehicle plate, paired it with roadway cameras, drones …
Moscow connected roughly 230,000 cameras to a citywide AI facial-recognition system pitched for public safety; leaked budget documents show over $121m earmarked …
In 2019 Malta's MDIA launched what it called the world's first national AI certification scheme. An academic review found zero applications by …
Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation uses the privately built Osavul AI platform to scan social media for Russian-linked disinformation campaigns, including fabricated …
A Copenhagen-area municipality piloted a points system assigning up to 3,000 risk points for parental mental illness, or 300 for a missed …
Austria's AMS scored every jobseeker into 3 employability tiers to ration training funds; researchers found a −0.14 penalty for being female. The …
Indonesia's KPK piloted AI that flags anomalies in officials' mandatory wealth declarations for manual review. In 2025 it screened about 1,000 of …
Laos' Ministry of Finance launched 'Smart Customs,' a centralised digital customs platform combining OCR, risk-analytics and e-payment modules, piloted at Thanaleng Dry …
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