Isabel Velarde

Latin America supplied the raw materials. Today it supplies the data, and receives the decisions. The region holds 6.6% of global GDP and receives 1.12% of global AI investment, while accounting for 14% of global visits to AI solutions. Algorithms designed for other markets govern who gets credit, who gets hired, who gets evaluated. A practitioner reading of why algorithmic accountability is the new governance frontier for Latin America.

The governance debate around artificial intelligence in Latin America proceeds, in most official forums, as though the central problem were institutional: which regulatory body should oversee AI systems, how risk categories should be defined, whether to follow the EU AI Act or develop something regional from first principles. These are legitimate questions. They are not the most urgent ones. The most urgent question is what is actually happening right now, in offices and agencies and...

Every digital talent strategy in Latin America contains a decision its authors prefer not to make explicit: who will remain invisible to the automated systems that will later evaluate them. This is not only a workforce issue, but a digital talent AI governance Peru problem with direct implications for how algorithmic systems include or exclude populations. Every digital talent strategy in Latin America contains a decision its authors prefer not to make explicit: who will remain invisible to...