Minister Barroso defends regulation of Artificial Intelligence

The President of the Federal Supreme Court, Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, defended the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a master class at the Rio de Janeiro State Judiciary School (EMERJ) with the theme “Artificial Intelligence: potential, risks and regulation” , held on Friday (12). According to the minister, technology needs to be focused on combating misinformation, hate speech and attacks on democracy.

“We need to protect democracy, combating disinformation, hate speech and the effort to subordinate the most vulnerable groups, and attacks on democracy, making information minimally transparent and intelligible to people,” said Barroso.

The president of the STF also spoke about the benefits and risks he sees in advancing the use of AI. For Minister Barroso, AI “will have the capacity to make decisions more efficiently than human beings, as it has the capacity to store more data than the human brain”.

Among the risks, Barroso highlighted the use of warfare, in autonomous weapons, and the use in the mass dissemination of disinformation. “Many jobs will disappear. Although others will emerge, they will not happen at the same speed. There is also an immense fear of the military use of artificial intelligence. There are autonomous lethal weapons that are capable of making their own attack decisions, which generate immense ethical problems. Another danger we are facing is the massification of misinformation,” he assessed.