AI in Latin America: Smart Cities or Surveillance States?
Artificial intelligence promises unprecedented efficiency, but without safeguards, it threatens to entrench inequality and empower authoritarianism.
As cities deploy artificial intelligence at a breakneck speed, they face a fundamental choice: Will AI enhance democratic governance or digitize authoritarian control More than 80% of Latin America’s population lives in urban areas, and in many cities, citizens are demanding solutions to rampant crime and broken public services. For leaders facing these pressures, AI appears to offer a silver bullet—a seemingly modern, decisive solution that projects an image of control and bypasses the slow, difficult work of institutional reform. Latin America’s $68.5 billion digital connectivity...
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