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Artificial Intelligence
Is Latin America ready?
In 2023 and 2024 a research team formed by Chile’s National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) and the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) began publishing an annual Latin America Artificial Intelligence Index (known by its Spanish acronym ILIA) covering 19 of the region’s countries. The ILIA is intended to measure readiness to adopt AI. Countries are given a score on a range from zero to 100, with the higher scores designating higher levels of preparedness.
- Introduction
- The slow-burn rise in AI
- Case studies: what is AI being used for in LAC?
- Is Latin America ready?
- The opportunity and risks of AI
- AI in LAC, as seen by ChatGPT.
- Quantifying the gains
- Will the bots destroy Latin American jobs?
- The big AI obstacle in LAC: labour informality
- The DeepSeek challenge
- The promise of Latam-GPT
- Rising data centre energy demand
- The European strategy
- Latin America faces regulatory challenges
- Brazil: pushing new legislation
- Mexico: slow development
- Chile: leader in regulation
- Argentina: seeking low regulation to attract investors
- Colombia: more than half the country’s companies are investing in AI
- Conclusion – a game of high stakes