Latin America Intelligent Age

Introduction: analysing artificial intelligence in Latin America Applying the World Economic Forum’s Blueprint for Intelligent Economies: AI Competitiveness through Regional Collaboration. AI is not simply a digital innovation; it has the potential to be one of the most consequential technological breakthroughs in recent history with an influence that cuts across sectors and industries, reshaping the foundations of modern economies. Much like other technologies that dramatically lowered fundamental input costs, rapidly spread across sectors and drove productivity growth, such as the steam engine, electricity or the internet,2 AI is redefining how societies work, produce, consume and compete. AI unlocks new frontiers in productivity, innovation and economic growth. If harnessed correctly, it offers benefits for the whole of society. For Latin America – a region marked by historically lower productivity and persistent inequality – AI represents an opportunity to accelerate economic and social development. Recognizing these transformative opportunities, the World Economic Forum developed the Blueprint for Intelligent Economies.3 This comprehensive framework for harnessing artificial intelligence to foster sustainable economic development offers guidance for nations and regions at any level of digital and AI maturity. The Blueprint outlines three layers essential for using AI in this way: building the foundations for intelligent economies, growing new intelligent economies and putting people at the heart of intelligent economies.