Cabinet wants to pursue a policy where it will make the resources available to enable the police to utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool to fight crime.
To this end, the Cabinet on Wednesday invited Principal of the UWI Five Island Campus, Professor Curtis Charles to address the issue of the second annual conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Since the OAS General Assembly will take place in late June 2025, the annual conference on AI will precede the OAS General Assembly by two days. UWI Five Islands Campus has shown an abiding interest of teaching AI to new students and the OAS members have indicated their interest in adopting AI for a host of solutions.
“It was suggested that UWI expertise in AI could be effectively deployed in professionalizing the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda and to serve Criminal Justice. The government will provide fifty scholarships to the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda annually for its members to earn Bachelor of Science Degrees in the application of Artificial Intelligence to Criminology,” Cabinet sources revealed.
According to the sources the UWI Professor indicated that UWI is keen to apply AI Solutions to three areas of governance: Crime, Climate Change and Non- Communicable Diseases. UWI will also apply AI solutions to FIN-TECH (banking, sports management and public health).
Meanwhile, the Cabinet also discussed a plan to bring all of the country’s tertiary level institutions under one central managements structure. It said that an act to establish The University of Antigua and Barbuda- College of Advanced Studies is to be brought to the Parliament when the body next meets on April 8, 2025. It will bring together all the tertiary institutions that now have separate boards and management structures to include Antigua State College, Antigua and Barbuda International Institute of Technology, Antigua and Barbuda Hospitality Training Institute and the Harrison Center.
