As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) pro­pos­es the es­tab­lish­ment of a Min­istry of Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Min­is­ter of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion Has­sel Bac­chus ar­gues that ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence is al­ready em­bed­ded in the tech­nol­o­gy we use dai­ly.

Speak­ing at the launch of the Min­istry’s 29th ICT Ac­cess Cen­tre at the Techi­er Vil­lage Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre in Point Fortin yes­ter­day, Bac­chus un­der­scored the in­te­gra­tion of AI across var­i­ous gov­ern­ment min­istries, in­clud­ing health­care and fi­nance.

“I do not know any­where in the world where they have min­istries of a tech­nol­o­gy. I have nev­er seen a min­istry of mo­bile, a min­istry of cel­lu­lar, a min­istry of 5G, or a min­istry of 4G. It is im­por­tant to un­der­stand that AI is a tool. It is a part of life; it is some­thing we are us­ing right now. Whether you know it or not, we are us­ing it. AI is em­bed­ded in chips; it is em­bed­ded in every­thing we do,” Bac­chus said.