Lula seeks to lead push for global AI rules during Brazil's G20

By Simone Iglesias and Augusta Saraiva
Bloomberg

Sep 23, 2024

As the planet’s largest economies struggle to forge consensus on the future of artificial intelligence, Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants to ensure the developing world isn't left out of the debate.

The Brazilian leader has added AI to his list of priorities for his country's presidency of the Group of 20 nations this year, seizing on the position to try to shape regulatory discussions that are raging from Europe to Asia to the United Nations, where the technology is expected to be a major theme of this week’s General Assembly.

Already seeking reforms to global institutions like the U.N. Security Council, Lula wants to use November's G20 leaders summit to craft a governance framework that includes the interests of Global South nations and forces AI superpowers China and the U.S. to the table, according to two people familiar with his views.

"The big challenge is reducing inequalities — because there is already inequality today," Luciana Santos, Brazil’s minister of science and technology, said in an interview with Bloomberg News. "We want to reduce this within countries and to do this we need to encourage the development of AI, especially for countries in the Global South."

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