Sánchez considers that “the voice of Ibero-America is very necessary”

O prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, today considered that the voice of the Ibero-American community is “very necessary” to respond to multilateral issues such as the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (IA) or the mitigation of the impact of climate change.

“The voice of Ibero-America is very necessary. I believe that within the United Nations system, but also in multilateral spaces like this, it is very important that we reach meeting points and agreements such as this week on Artificial Intelligence,” Sánchez said.

The leader of the Spanish executive spoke at a business meeting in Madrid parallel to the 30th Ibero-American Summit, at a session where other Heads of Government, including the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro, attended.

Sánchez referred to the agreements that will predictably be ratified on Thursday by the plenary of the Ibero-American summit.

The Spanish Government expects “five great results” to be closed and ratified, materialized in various agreements such as the one that creates the Ibero-American network to reduce the risk of disasters and civil protection, a proposal presented by Portugal.

A “Ibero-American Alliance for Artificial Intelligence”, an agreement for “academic mobility”, another on social care and support and a new strategy for cooperation between the Ibero-American countries should also emerge from the summit.

Sánchez said today that “unfortunately there are important powers” to disregard and despise international law and multilateralism when there are common challenges and problems to which multinational responses are needed, such as climate change or regulation of Artificial Intelligence.

On the AI, it stressed the potential impact on production processes, supply chains or jobs, to insist on the importance of regulation and a “social contract that calls for increased productivity of companies with labour and workers’ rights”.

“Technology must be the service of citizens,” he stressed, before insisting “on the excess of economic and political power” that they currently have or are concentrating the “technoligarchs”, a message that he has repeated in recent months.