President says the UN must have greater participation in governance over technology, which he defined as a risk to democracy
In his first speech on the trip to India, the president (PT) highlighted the aspects he considers negative about the development of AI (Artificial Intelligence).
The PT member stated that the current scenario opens space for a series of “extremely harmful practices” of technology such as hate speech, feminicide and pornography. He suggested that the UN (United Nations) should play a central role in the growth of this sector. Here is the speech (PDF – 49 kB).
Lula recognized the importance of global forums on the topic, but said that the UN is the only organization with the capacity to guide the use of AI for development and inclusion.
According to the president, the world is at a crossroads regarding the use of AIs and that the retreat of multilateralism between countries pushes them away from the potential of “collective well-being” that technology can produce.
Lula stated that the regulation of big techs is a necessity to dilute the “risk to democracy” of the tool. He said that the companies’ business model encourages political radicalism and that AI has the ability to enhance disinformation.
“False content manipulated by artificial intelligence distorts electoral processes and puts democracy at risk”declared Lula in his speech at the Summit on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in New Delhi.
As shown by the Poder360one of Lula’s objectives in India is . The Brazilian government does not want the path of nuclear energy to be repeated: rich countries have created what Brazilian diplomats call “responsible people’s club” and left poor countries without access to technology.
The so-called is not a geographic region, but a geopolitical concept. It refers to what in the past was referred to as “Third World”, “developing” or “emerging” countries. In general, the term is used by countries whose governments are grouped in opposition to part of the policies of the United States and Western Europe.
The Summit on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence brings together representatives from 50 countries and around 40,000 participants. Among those present are leaders from companies such as Google (Sundar Pichai), OpenAI (Sam Altman), Anthropic (Dario Amodei), Nvidia (Jensen Huang) and DeepMind (Demis Hassabis), as well as the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.
