Comment by Andala Ubbi

An artificial intelligence algorithm is like a baby: when a baby is born it begins to listen to the voices around it, learns from its mistakes, and learns from the biases of the society around it; an AI algorithm does the same. Now imagine a baby raised in an environment where it only hears sexist, xenophobic or racist comments; or a baby raised in an environment of hoaxes and disinformation. [...] In SUMAR, far from a techno-pessimist position, we are quite techno-optimist: we think technology, artificial intelligence and big data are the most important democratizing and emancipating tools of this century. That is why we will support this initiative, but we want to go further, because we know that regulating is not enough. 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 profit from our clinical data.