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Artificial Intelligence
The opportunity and risks of AI
It is generally accepted that AI brings potentially vast opportunities and increased efficiency, while at the same time posing significant risks of various types of harm. Eclac Acting Deputy Executive Secretary Javier Medina Vázquez sought to capture the dilemma by commenting that “AI can foster innovation and address key changes in health, education and the environment. AI can optimise government’s administrative processes, improve decision making and better meet citizen’s demands.” At the same time however, he said “it can also widen pre-existing socioeconomic gaps if we don’t act quickly and decisively, especially in terms of investment, infrastructure, education, computing capacities, and regulation”.
- 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