拉丁美洲经济委员会-加强加勒比地区的人工智能准备（英）

POLICY BRIEF LC/CAR/2025/3 25 August 2025 Strengthening the artificial intelligence readiness of the Caribbean 2 Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, when applied well, could help in addressing key global challenges and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, these potential benefits will not materialize automatically. The use of AI also carries significant risks, such as disruption to job markets and economies, loss of cultural diversity, new AI-enabled digital weapons that increase misinformation and surveillance, and threats to human rights and democracy. While AI systems could support the achievement of many of the SDGs , they could also impede the achievement of others and increase inequalities within and between countries (Vinuesa and others). Many experts in the field of AI are concerned that existing or new harms resulting from AI will become substantially more serious or widespread in the near future, due to inequalities arising from differential control of and ownership over AI technologies (UN HLAB, 2024a). Bearing in mind these risks and the promises of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to “leave no one behind”, “reach the furthest behind first” and “reduce inequality within and among countries”, it is clear that governments must strengthen their capacity to govern AI. The real harms associated with AI must be mitigated, new risks and threats must be anticipated, and its potential and opportunities could be harnessed for the benefit of people across the Caribbean. However, there is a governance gap relating to digital technologies, in particular AI, that must be filled to achieve this. Caribbean governments are actively engaging with the global AI policy and governance dialogues, but governance gaps still exist at the national level. This policy brief discusses the Caribbean’s AI readiness by reviewing action taken by Caribbean governments, as well as discussing infrastructure, digital skills and the private sector. It also situates AI and the digital transformation in the context of the ongoing triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, by discussing certain sustainability and resilience considerations for Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS). 3 CARIBBEAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE READINESS Policies, strategies and laws Caribbean governments are actively engaged with the global discussions on how to regulate AI. This is evidenced by the unanimous adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2021), and that several Caribbean States co-sponsored the two 2024 General Assembly resolutions on AI (78/265 and 78/311). At the regional level, the Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2026) speaks to fostering innovation, emerging technologies and AI for sustainable development , while safeguarding human rights and the ethical use of technology. The Santiago (2023) and Cartag