The founder of cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty ad­vo­ca­cy group Cy­ber­SafeTT has sup­port­ed Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo’s call for ur­gent AI leg­is­la­tion.

Daren Dho­ray de­scribed the Pres­i­dent’s speech dur­ing the cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 13th Re­pub­li­can Par­lia­ment on Fri­day as a “for­ward-look­ing aware­ness of both the promise and per­il AI pos­es to our so­ci­ety.”

Kan­ga­loo had wel­comed the new gov­ern­ment’s cre­ation of a Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence but said this must be fol­lowed by laws to pre­vent fu­ture harm. She warned that AI could deep­en in­equal­i­ty, dis­place work­ers, and con­cen­trate eco­nom­ic pow­er with­out ear­ly leg­isla­tive safe­guards.