The obstacles are real. Coordination is hard, and many past South-South initiatives promised much and delivered little. A large member could dominate, swapping dependence on the North for dependence on a Southern giant.
Humanity has spent centuries learning to control dangerous technologies it built for itself. AI is the newest version of that old problem and potentially the most difficult because the thing we're trying to control may eventually be better than us at understanding the systems around it.
Should the world surrender to the illusory ideas of these Jesus-like tech giants that the algorithms will know better than human beings to run the world? Should we surrender human intelligence to machine-driven superintelligence? Should consciousness be subjugated by intelligence for technological development, with little regard for human civilization?
If Amodei, Altman, and Musk actually believe what they're saying about the stakes, the test isn't whether they write an essay or post a tweet. It's whether they support external, binding, independently enforced rules that apply to everyone equally, including the possibility that a genuinely safer path is a slower, smaller AI industry than the one currently raising trillion-dollar valuations.
AI systems still require human oversight, localization, compliance handling, data verification, exception resolution, and cultural adaptation. These are precisely the areas where developing countries may retain relevance.
I’m not against using AI, I never was. I just want you to use it cautiously. Because the more you are replacing AI with your own mind, the more it will take space in your soul. If we keep asking AI solutions for every simple problem, our mind will become too fragile to face challenges.
A policy without execution mechanisms is not a plan. It is a press release.
Bangladesh needs to protect itself and its intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence. Do our leaders and decision-makers understand what is at stake?
We are already behind, but it is not too late and it need not continue to be that way. AI can help Bangladesh take a quantum leap into the future.
