U.S. Virgin Islands

Summary

The U.S. Virgin Islands has no enacted AI-behavior-specific law as of mid-2026. The closest AI-adjacent legislative activity was Bill No. 35-0131 (35th Legislature), which would have established a real-time crime center within the Virgin Islands Police Department using AI-assisted surveillance tools (facial recognition, automated license plate reading, gunshot detection); the bill was held in committee without a vote pending further amendments on civil-liberties safeguards and data-retention rules. No chatbot disclosure, automated decision-making accountability, or training-data opt-out statute exists at the territorial level. The primary applicable backstop is the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, 12A V.I.C. § 304, a general deceptive-trade-practices statute that prohibits false, misleading, or deceptive representations in commerce — including, by extension, an AI agent or bot misrepresenting itself as human in a consumer interaction. The Virgin Islands Attorney General invoked this statute and the companion Consumer Protection Law of 1973 (12A V.I.C. § 101) in a December 2025 lawsuit against Meta alleging that algorithmic systems were used to target vulnerable consumers with fraudulent advertisements. Federal law — in particular Federal Trade Commission Act § 5 and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — applies in parallel to private-sector conduct in the territory.