Artificial Intelligence meets South America: mapping emerging technology power governance and the challenges ahead

This work critically analyses the orientations of the political economy of artificial intelligence governance in South America, by examining how their different and overlapping tendencies related to the three major international projects of the United States, the European Union, and China. Then, the chapter explores who wins and who loses in relation to AI governance’s models of global development. First, it characterizes the problem of AI, outlining the conceptual links between the Global Political Economy and South American configurations. Secondly, it examines the main AI political economic projects internationally and the power orientations that they take in South America. Finally, it concludes how mixed and segmented orientations of AI governance have taken place in South America through different transmission changes between centre and periphery via international institutions, states, and markets shaped by the political-economic character of national and regional orientations.