Cultural challenges of the malicious use of artificial intelligence in Latin American regional balance

This paper surveys the landscape of potential security threats from malicious use of artificial intelligence technologies (MUAI) in Latin America. This study is based on scenario analysis to identify the MUAI-related cultural threats for region geopolitical balance. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities stimulates the transition to a new technological order. These technologies with indeed many social applications benefits also transform nations power relations and lead to the new threats and vulnerabilities in the field of international psychological security (IPS), turning artificial intelligence and geopolitics more closer and challenging democracy and national security traditional models. AI-based technologies interact with peoples cognitive assumptions and provide any individual, group, organisation or nation-state to influence on public consciousness as a new kind of weapon in the global system. Research results look at how behavior, self-efficacy and privacy attitude are affected by culture compared to other psychological and demographics variables. It also examines what kind of data people tend to share online and how culture affects these choices. This study presents a multi-cultural view of MUAI for regional balance in Latin America, supports the idea of cultural competency as a mechanism of social influence and sets the distribution of power from the notion of security as a socio-cultural phenomenon. AI is highly likely to have different social impacts for region geopolitical balance depending on people cultural settings traced by customs, values and behaviours. This paper confirms that MUAI elevates threats to IPS to a qualitatively new level, which requires an adequate assessment and reaction from society. The comprehension of cross-cultural new threats of MUAI lead to formulate large-scale strategies to protect the sovereignty and enforce regional roles for building consensus, engagement and international collaboration, and forced experts to assume the ethic implications of surveillance, persuasion, and physical target identification for region balance