# Trinidad and Tobago

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Trinidad and Tobago
- **ISO code**: TT
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Americas / Caribbean

## In brief

Trinidad and Tobago has no AI policy instrument recorded here yet. Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Digital Transformation published a draft national AI policy for consultation in 2025. Regulators include Ministry of Digital Transformation. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Digital Transformation published a draft national AI policy for consultation in 2025. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems. This record exists so that coverage is complete and honest: it will be expanded when an official AI instrument is published or a reviewer adds one with its source.

## Regulatory status

Trinidad and Tobago's Ministry of Digital Transformation published a draft national AI policy for consultation in 2025. General law (data protection where enacted, consumer, telecommunications and sector rules) applies to AI systems.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: no AI-specific instrument recorded. Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

## Regulators

- Ministry of Digital Transformation — Official government portal; AI policy lead not yet identified — https://www.mdt.gov.tt/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Treat the absence of an AI-specific instrument as a gap in our records, not as legal certainty; check the government portal and regulator sites linked here.

## Official sources

- Ministry of Digital Transformation — Government of Trinidad and Tobago — https://www.mdt.gov.tt/
- Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide (country table) — UNCTAD — https://unctad.org/page/data-protection-and-privacy-legislation-worldwide

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/trinidad-and-tobago
- **Official source**: https://www.mdt.gov.tt/
- **Source document**: Ministry of Digital Transformation
- **Published by**: Government of Trinidad and Tobago
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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