The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, wrote an article, published in This Sunday (8.Jun.2025), in which he warns of the growing dependence on artificial intelligence in everyday life and advocates the need for state regulation to control this technology.
Lewandowski argued that “Only national states, in the exercise of their sovereignty, have the power of it to face this new and challenging phenomenon, redirecting it to meet the authentic interests of its citizens, through proper regulation.”.
The minister evaluates that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a neutral technology. “It is controlled by allegories designed to the alventies of its creators, inserting itself in specific social, political, economic and cultural contexts, under the control of institutions that have their own objectives, not always altruistic,”, he wrote.
Lewandowski argued that AI regulation cannot be up to the market or “Self -regulation” technology companies. For him, only national states can ensure that artificial intelligence serves on the interests of society.
The minister cites the benefits of AI and recalls that technology is already used in various areas, such as scientific research, drug manufacture, medical diagnoses, transport security, weather forecast, industrial automation and agriculture. According to him, artificial intelligence “It is capable of teaching computers to master human cognitive abilities and apply them to theoretical and practical issues in a faster and more efficient way than human beings themselves.”
However, Lewandowski talks about the risk. According to him, the technology can “Develop incurable pathogens, develop virtually invincible weapons, cause accidental wars, interfere with individuals’ behavior, eliminate jobs, stimulate autocratic regimes, manipulate genetic codes, invade people’s privacy and – which is more serious – to escape control of their creators, developing their own will.”.
The minister quoted the academic Kate Crawford, author of the book Atlas of AIwhich notes that I was, though it seems “A spectral force”corresponds to “Physical infrastructures that are redesigning the world, while simultaneously change the way it is seen and understood”Crawford also points out that these policies are directedS “For the great houses of the AI”, as big techs, “Which consists of about half a dozen companies that dominate planetary computing on a large scale”.
Finally, the minister drew attention to the complexity of AI, which covers “From intelligence policy to mass collection of data, from the industrial concentration of the technological sector to the military geopolitical power, from the exhaustion of the environment to different forms of discrimination”in addition to reconfigurations in “Epistemology, principles of justice, social organization, political expression, culture, understanding of human bodies, subjectivities and identities”.
