00:00As the TTPS investigates the circumstances surrounding the interception and subsequent leak of communications between two private citizens, the question
00:10of AI has once again been brought to the fore.
00:13To what extent do you think AI is already being utilized here in government systems, perhaps to intercept communications and
00:19things like that?
00:20Well, I mean, it's not new. It has been around for some time.
00:25The AI was used by Cambridge Analytica years ago to impact the elections in Toronto, so that is nothing new.
00:34And what we see now with the interceptions and all of that, we have known about that for some time,
00:42but we didn't know how it was being used.
00:44So what is happening now is that some of the things that are coming out there will have us scared
00:50as to the level of monitoring and who they're monitoring and so on.
00:55At this time, Trinidad and Tobago does not have a comprehensive AI framework.
01:00The issue is who guarding the guards, even if you have it, right, you know, people who have access to
01:07the equipment, right, who monitor and what they're doing.
01:12And, you know, whether we're going to have stuff to safeguard us from that too, yeah?
01:18There's technology that could be used to do that, to watch the guards.
01:23I saw the commissioner of police this morning said they're going to investigate, you know, what kind of, if what
01:31they're doing is legal or illegal, because there are different arms of the state, and whereas the police may not
01:36be using it, there's the SSA, there's different, you know, there are different elements, you know, different types of bodies
01:44within the state structure that might be using it for purposes that it was not supposed to be designed for.
01:51And even outside of the legality of it, in the absence of a comprehensive AI framework, is it ethical as
01:58well?
01:59Well, of course not, right? Your personal, you know, personal information is not supposed to be out there and so
02:07on.
02:08Earlier this month, the government signed off on three memoranda of understanding with U.S. entities for the proposed establishment
02:15of large-scale data centers and AI infrastructure.
02:19What they've seen happening in Point Lisas, where those big companies struggling for gas, right?
02:26What is going to drive and power the AI data centers? That is really the question.
02:31So if that is solved, then that other question could be solved, right?
02:36So until they come up with a plan that shows that we can, or we do have that power to
02:43power these data centers, to me the argument is moot.
02:47Fernandez is set to launch a full-scale AI solutions company, IntelliCo, AI Agency Limited, next month, offering AI solutions
02:58for a range of services across sectors.
03:01And he says, while many people have concerns with respect to a so-called AI takeover, TNT must get with
03:09the times.
03:10Down the road, you're going to have robots coming off the line every 20 minutes.
03:17I'm capable of doing some of that work.
03:21So what that means is the cost is supposed to go down.
03:25And if the cost is supposed to go down, then this is supposed to benefit, right?
03:30So there are going to be a lot of disruptions, but society has to work out.
03:38You know, the means of production is now, will be way ahead of how the organized society is.
03:45So my own view is that in a couple of years' time, people will not be working a whole week.
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