KINGSTON, Jamaica – Cabinet is soon to receive a report from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force that was mandated to provide an evidence-based foundation for the development of a National AI Policy.
Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. Dana Morris Dixon.Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon indicated that she has received a copy of the report.
“I have gone through [it] and we will be taking it to Cabinet,” she said.
She said details of the document will be shared following the Cabinet submission, hinting at the prospect of doing so during a media briefing and inviting the Task Force’s Chair, “to talk about what the report says and how they see us actually navigating this [AI] space”.
Welcoming the completion and submission of the Task Force’s report, she said: “I’m happy that they have done it. They were only one month late [in doing so], and they did have [a reason]… but I’m very happy that they have submitted it.”
The Task Force, which was established last year, examined the role of AI in several sectors, including education.
“We truly believe that our children have to be a part of the world, where it is going, and AI is a big part of that. So [the] Task Force has looked at our education system, [in terms of] what needs to change there,” Senator Morris Dixon pointed out.
She also informed that the Task Force had examined AI, “in terms of our businesses [and] how we can harness AI better and also in terms of government policy”.
“[Additionally], how do we mitigate… the negatives that come with AI, and even looking at the ethics around AI and how Jamaica navigates [it] in the international space that is currently developing legislation around it,” she said.
The Task Force is also expected to identify opportunities for the adoption of AI technologies, potential areas of economic growth and development and potential social impacts.
