Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Secretary of State for Innovation and Professional Training, Pedro Lopes, challenged young people this Thursday to explore the advantages and see Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an opportunity to transform the country with knowledge.
The governor launched the challenge in statements to the press, moments before the opening ceremony of the seminar “The impacts of Artificial Intelligence on the job market”, promoted by the Job Market Observatory.
“Everyone is afraid of AI, but the data shows that there is a net positive balance, that is, some post-jobs will be destroyed, but many more will be created. I think that for this generation there is an opportunity to transform the country with knowledge and digital is an opportunity for artificial intelligence,” he declared.
He said AI equally represents an opportunity for businesses and the public sector to be “more efficient”, have the ability to do more and create with a focus on innovation.
The minister also considered it important for this issue to be addressed and explored and for young people to be prepared and equipped with tools so that in a few years’ time they can be productive and make a difference in the Cape Verdean job market.
He added, on the other hand, that a survey is underway to determine the level of digital literacy in Cape Verde to find out the level of digital literacy in the country.
“We know that Internet access is almost 90 accesses per 100 citizens, but we need to know what people do with the Internet, if they have digital literacy, the knowledge to know how to navigate the Internet, and we are doing exactly that study, we are also doing a study on the digital readiness of the private sector, and these studies are important for us to later define public policies”, he asserted.
In turn, the president of the steering committee of the Labor Market Observatory and rector of the University of Cape Verde, Arlindo Barreto, stated that AI has a “very big” impact on the work environment around the world.
He highlighted that in Cape Verde it is also beginning to be noticed that there are professions in which people are beginning to be almost dispensable because there is automation of various services that AI allows to be done.
Asked whether the issue of ethics in the use of AI represents a concern, he highlighted that what normally validates knowledge is the belief in the personality of the person and the entity that produces the speeches.
“There is software that allows us to detect whether a speech was completely produced or recovered from artificial intelligence, but the experts themselves have also shown that they can completely create, do personal work and the software sometimes detects it as something that constitutes plagiarism, and so this raises important questions, but it is not a very big concern,” he said.
He also highlighted that the academies have been making a “strong investment” in the debates, indicating that the University of Cape Verde has worked “immensely” on these issues with forums, seminars and conferences with experts in these areas.
“I think that this is the role of universities, of academies, working, questioning, looking for the best path for the issue of artificial intelligence and everything that has to do with the issue of the internet and new technologies, because it is part of the mission of academies”, he highlighted.
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