–President Ali says

PRESIDENT, Dr. Irfaan Ali believes that there is need for proper regulations to be developed to manage the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other developing technologies which are evolving rapidly in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) region.

“I believe that the region must work immediately on developing regulations to [manage] the use of AI within this region,” President Ali said during the opening ceremony of the 46th Regular Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government, held at the National Cultural Centre, on Sunday.

The Head of State said that it will be disastrous if the region does not collectively establish legislation to monitor the use of AI.

“We must have a common rule-based system. Regulations or legislation to deal with AI is going to be disastrous if we do not manage this now and have the infrastructure established to manage it now,” he related.

AI is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Some specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition, and machine vision.

“We need to develop, urgently, a digital strategy and AI strategy for the region. Because if you are to integrate that digital platform, it must be integrated from conceptualisation to implementation,” President Ali added.