Comment by Tesh Sidi

An artificial intelligence algorithm is the closest thing to a baby; in fact, it is a replication of a human neural network. When a baby is born, it begins to listen to the voices around it, learns from its mistakes, learns from the biases of the society around it, learns ideology and learns biases, and an artificial intelligence algorithm does the same. Now imagine a baby raised in an environment where it only hears sexist, xenophobic or racist comments from VOX; or a baby that only hears “I won the elections” over and over again; or even a baby raised in an environment of hoaxes and disinformation. [...] In SUMAR, far from a techno-pessimistic position, we are quite techno-optimistic; in fact, we think technology, artificial intelligence and big data are the most important democratizing and emancipating tools of this century and of our society. That is why we will support this Socialist Party initiative, but we want to go further, because we know that regulating is not enough. We need public alternatives, because just as a medicine is regulated, artificial intelligence must be regulated, because we want the time that artificial intelligence frees up to go to workers, not to companies; and we want artificial intelligence to reduce waiting lists in public healthcare, not for insurers to benefit from our clinical data.