AI Is Accidentally Putting Humanity on the Same Side

The talk argues that as we build ever-smarter machines, humanity is losing its ability to make decisions together. It holds that technology is no longer the most urgent problem and calls for exercising "sovereignty as a species" to govern it before it governs us. The speaker, Gloria Maldonado, is a Chilean corporate director and former chair of ENAP and CorreosChile, and has worked for over two decades on bringing technology into Chile's development. The talk was given at a TEDx event independently organized by a local community.

• Losing the collective ability to decide as machines grow smarter
• The argument that technology is no longer the most urgent problem
• A call for species-level sovereignty to govern AI

As we build ever-smarter machines, we are losing our ability to decide together. This talk argues that technology is no longer our most urgent problem and calls for exercising “sovereignty as a species” to govern it before it governs us. Gloria Maldonado is a Chilean corporate director and former chair of ENAP and CorreosChile. She led three national technology centers (CEMP, CTeC and MERIC) and spent nine years at CORFO’s InnovaChile. She now holds advisory roles on global engineering and energy councils. For over two decades she has worked to bring technology into Chile’s development, and today she advocates for humanity’s ability to govern it together. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx