Abstract
This chapter critically discusses two central policy initiatives to regulate AI in Brazil: The Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Bill and the Brazilian Strategy for AI. Our analysis focuses on four sets of issues: Brazil’s digital policy tradition and the political context in which these initiatives were formulated and decided on (i.e., the far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro, which epitomizes the Brazilian version of a global trend of democratic erosion); how those two policy texts conceptualize AI technologies, their roles and relevance vis-à-vis the particularities of the Brazilian social, economic and legal realities; regarding the imaginaries represented in such texts; and who are the groups represented in the debates around these policies. Our goal is to provide a general overview of the Brazilian AI policy landscape and contribute to debates on how national political and legal dynamics can shape a sort of technological system that is often described as “universal” and “global”.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Elgar Companion to Regulating AI and Big Data in Emerging Economies |
| Editors | Mark Findlay, Li Min Ong, Wenxi Zhang |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Pages | 183-200 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781785362408 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781785362392 |
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| Publication status | Published - 5-Dec-2023 |