The EU and Argentina discussed personal data and Artificial Intelligence and the protection of personal information. European and Argentine officials agreed that AI is a “productive revolution” that requires structural changes. For the Andean Development Corporation, AI can be useful in Argentina in politics, in diagnoses, making predictions, and improving the provision of services to citizens.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina started a meeting with the European Union called “Trends and Challenges of International Cooperation in Personal Data Protection and AI”. In that forum, officials discussed privacy in the digital age.
European and Argentine officials agreed that AI is a “productive revolution” that requires changes to face specific challenges. They even created the panel on AI “Challenges in the Protection of Personal Data and AI”, where academics, businessmen, and civil society exchanged points of view.
Argentina and the EU Admit that AI is Behind a “Productive Revolution”
Argentina is one of the countries in the region that is creating a national AI strategy. In May, the Ministry of Science announced that it was negotiating a loan with the Inter-American Development Bank to strengthen the Argentine scientific and university system, linked to data science and AI.
In his meeting with European authorities, the Argentine Foreign Minister, Santiago Cafiero, pointed out the following:
“The productive matrix is changing, there is a new revolution from the productive point of view and it is intertwined with the new technological developments and in this specific case the challenges regarding Artificial Intelligence. The challenges on AI, on this new productive revolution, have to be built as the change is taking place.”
For the Andean Development Corporation, AI can be useful for Argentina in politics, in diagnoses, making predictions, and improving the provision of services to citizens with personalized attention. On the risks, Cafiero suggested that the public sector should explain what it bases on to make decisions based on AI solutions, claiming “That is why we must work on having ethical frameworks for the development of artificial intelligence solutions from the public sector.”
Microsoft recently revealed that six out of ten Argentines would delegate as much work as possible to AI to reduce their workload. Additionally, three out of four workers felt they would “feel comfortable” using AI for more than just administrative tasks.
Yesterday, Cafiero tweeted that “With @RossiAgustinOk we shared a meeting between Argentina and the European Union on Trends and Challenges of International Cooperation in Personal Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence.”
Argentina Accelerates Adoption of AI as a Labor Tool
The adoption of AI in Argentina is such that Argentines consider using this technology for analytical and creative work. In both cases, 82 and 74%, respectively. Finally, executives from Argentina and the EU agreed that AI requires a geostrategic articulation:
“AI requires a different, global vision; This is challenging for the time to come because the norms of the countries, of the nation states, have to do with cultural, value, and traditional issues of each one of them. We are advancing in a different, global dimension, where we have to have enough creativity and respect to contemplate each of these diversities.”
In June, it was reported that the IDB lent 35 million dollars to Argentina for the development of sectors related to the field of AI. The “Support Program for Exports of the Knowledge Economy” aims to promote the development of the sector and subsequent international insertion.
By Marina Meza
