, Columnist
AI Threatens to Widen Latin America’s Digital Divide
The challenge is designing public policies to address the rise of the technology in poor nations often beset with unstable leadership.
The revolution is coming.
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Lawmakers in Costa Rica writing a bill with ChatGPT. A judge in Colombia using the same tool to ask for advice in a case before him. A news anchor developed by artificial intelligence giving live reports in Mexico.
As in the rest of the world, both the wonders and absurdities of AI are increasingly visible in Latin America. The difference is that the region is among the world’s most unequal when it comes to not only income but also technology. The question for both corporations and regulators is how to use the rise of AI to narrow that divide.