Latin America's search for AI sovereignty
From the foothills of the Andes, a group of Chilean engineers is building an ambitious AI experiment: LatamGPT, a regional language model trained not in California, but at Chile’s solar-powered superc...
Latin LLMs: Buy, Build or Fine-Tune?
LatamGPT aims at a regional language model trained in regional data at Chile’s solar-powered supercomputing center.
Switzerland’s own in-house LLM shows that sovereign AI is possible—but is it the best path for Latin America?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/latin-...
19.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Regulating AI on Latin America’s Terms
The region has a narrow window to develop its own approach, taking inspiration from international frameworks while adapting them to local needs.
"Latin America faces a choice that will determine its economic future: develop AI governance on its own terms, or become a regulatory colony of Silicon Valley and Brussels."
Escribí sobre cómo pensar la regulación de la IA en América Latina.
americasquarterly.org/article/regu...
30.06.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Employment records: The missing piece in the US labor market?
Eduardo Levy Yeyati discusses employment records systems and explains how they could potentially transform the U.S. labor market.
"Credentials say what you know, employment records show what you’ve done. If we can’t track experience, we can’t recognize it and reward it. And experience will soon be our last chance to complement the algorithm."
My new piece for @brookings.edu.
www.brookings.edu/articles/emp...
16.06.2025 14:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Where Does Latin America Stand in the Global AI Race?
Chile-backed model Latam-GPT plans to make its public debut in September.
“We have public education, health, and transportation policies, but we don’t have public digital connectivity policies. That is absolutely inexplicable today.”
Chile-backed model Latam-GPT plans to make its public debut in September. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/l...
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With fewer legacy systems, growing tech ecosystems, and a strong tradition of social rights-based regulation, Latin America is a natural sandbox for forward-looking AI governance. In a recent piece, I lay out the key ingredients and essential steps for smart AI regulation in LAC.
22.05.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Una lección de las corridas de los 80-90 fue que una flotación sucia es preferible (más resiliente) a una banda porque no ofrece al especulador un blanco (el techo de la banda) que atacar. De ahí la prevalencia de los regímenes flexibles en el nuevo milenio.
Fuente: ideas.repec.org/p/sad/wpaper...
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Gen AI offers an opportunity for education—not to replace teachers, but to support them. In this study we show how AI can act as a scaffold—not a shortcut—for learning, and why LAC is well-positioned to lead the integration of AI in the classroom.
Link (English & español): utdt.edu/ver_contenid...
23.03.2025 17:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our paper on What Works for Active Labor Market Policies is already available online.
Ya está disponible online nuestro artículo sobre qué funciona en politicas pro empleo, donde comparamos evaluacion de experiencias recientes en el mundo.
Link: economia.lse.ac.uk/articles/10....
19.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
History teaches that harder than containing inflation with an exchange rate anchor is exiting the anchor in time. When the moment comes, nobody wants to change a winning strategy; once the moment´s passed, there is no easy way out.
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
18.03.2025 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
La confusión entre democracia y liberalismo nubla el debate sobre la nueva derecha, que es a la vez democrática (popular, incluso populista) y antiliberal (aversa a la libertad de expresión y a la separación de poderes). Su oposición natural no sería la izquierda iliberal sino un liberalismo amplio.
17.03.2025 16:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving’ | Jeanette Winterson
I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs
Escritores britanicos sobre el cuento corto hecho por el modelo de escritura creativa de Open AI: “un elegante vacío” (Nick Harkaway); “genuinamente inteligente” (David Baddiel); “hermoso y emotivo” (Jeanette Winterson).
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
16.03.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
DeepSeek Reveals Latin America’s AI Crossroads
China’s new large language model, LLM, offers the region a chance to seize AI on its own terms but also brings risks of dependency.
"DeepSeek suggests the future may be defined not by a single dominant technology but by a range of competing standards. Regardless, LatAm must prevent swapping one form of dependence for another."
My piece on the implication of DeepSeek for LatAm's AI agenda:
americasquarterly.org/article/deep...
19.02.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Todo Noticias
Beatriz Sarlo, con Levy Yeyati: “A los políticos los juzgo viendo cómo les fue en su territorio”
Se la va a extrañar. QEPD.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGE...
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Why gen AI can’t fully replace us (for now)
Mi nota sobre el rol del conocimiento práctico en la complementación entre humanos y algoritmos para el blog de at @brookings.edu.
My piece on the role of experiential knowledge in strengthening the complementarity between human workers and algorithms.
www.brookings.edu/articles/why...
21.12.2024 15:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cómo regular el cambio tecnológico en su fase exponencial sin trabarlo o mirarlo por el retrovisor?
Para orientar el debate escribimos con Angeles Cortesi esta guía introductoria sobre regulación de IA en LAC (versión en español pronto en este mismo link):
utdt.edu/ver_contenid...
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ChatGPT will happily write you a thinly disguised horoscope
There’s a meme floating around at the moment where you ask ChatGPT the following and it appears to offer deep insight into your personality: From all of our interactions what …
Hay un meme circulando donde alguien pregunta a ChatGPT qué puede decirle de sí mismo y el algo le da una descripción "profunda" de su personalidad. No te dejes engañar pensando que hay algo profundo ahí: es sólo un algoritmo actuando como un horóscopo.
simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/15/...
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YouTube video by LA NACION
Milei y la utopía argentina de la IA: ¿por qué no alcanza con macro ordenada y desregulación total?
Con Luciana Vazquez hablamos de cómo la IA trae oportunidades o riesgos para el país según nos preparemos, por qué Elon & Sam promueven el ingreso universal, y cómo creo que el #hechoxhumanos será la marca identitaria que defina la frontera del trabajo.
youtu.be/MWGj918EO-I?...
24.11.2024 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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