Artificial intelligence is already here. Increasingly present in our lives every day. The great debate we face as a society is how it will develop and be applied in the future so that it serves humanity and does not entail a loss of the democratic freedoms that took so many centuries to achieve.
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If you think this comment is exaggerated, I recommend you read today Joaquín Vera’s article about the effort the CNI is making in Spain to protect companies, banking entities, and basic infrastructures against cyberattacks that are now much easier to spread thanks to Mythos, the new AI technology created by Anthropic. This new AI model is in the hands of a small group of companies like Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon and was created to detect flaws in their anti-piracy systems. The problem is that if this application falls into undesirable hands, it can detect security holes in seconds through which they could sneak in to access users’ data and information or sabotage the normal functioning of basic services.
This week the I International Meeting for Digital Rights was held in Barcelona, where a new alarm call was raised about the misuse of AI. Today we interview the Minister for Digital Transformation, Óscar López, who organized the meeting with the Mobile World Capital, and despite his explanations about the legislative efforts the Government has made and all his good intentions, the feeling in the end is that the legislative power is already late. “Democracies cannot just watch what companies decide, they must act,” says the minister. But the reality is that control of artificial intelligence is in the hands of some technological leaders who operate outside the law.
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And these technooligarchs are very clear about it. And they do not hide. The recent manifesto from Palantir, the technological giant of software services, proposes dispossessing governments of their powers and advocates the creation of a technological republic. Everything is happening very fast and without control. AI is a great advance, but the key is to master it and have it used by users, not the other way around.
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