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June 13, 2022

Is Brazil Making the Right Moves in Regulating AI?

Legislation related to the development and regulation of artificial intelligence is currently under consideration in Brazil’s Senate. // File Photo: geralt via Pixabay.

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Angel Melguizo, Colombia-based economist and UNESCO regional advisor for Latin America on artificial intelligence and ethics: “Brazil is a digital leader not just in Latin America, but also worldwide, thanks to its impressive progress in traditional digital markets such as telecommunications (including 5G) and also as an innovation and digital entrepreneurship hub, with leading fintech unicorns. This is why it is so important for the country to advance regulations on AI, making sure it is economically, socially and politically sustainable, by respecting ethics, human rights, democratic values and diversity. Today, companies and governments in Brazil use AI systems to optimize decisions on job searches, access to credit, and taxes and transfers, among many other services. Brazil’s digital regulation has traditionally been advanced for Latin America, starting with data privacy and protection, and now artificial intelligence. Brazil is one of the so-called early adopters of UNESCO’s recommendation on AI and ethics…”

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