New ULP Administration will roll out AI policy

A NEW UNITY LABOUR PARTY ADMINISTRATION will be rolling out an Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy to embrace its positives and guard against the negatives. This includes training for how Artificial Intelligence must be addressed, talked about, studied and dealt with in a modern world, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Information Technology, Camillo Gonsalves, said on radio this week.

“AI is going to make a lot of…government activities more efficient, faster. It’s going to make crime fighting better. It’s going to make customer service improve, but it is also going to jeopardize…be disruptive in the job market, because they’re going to be a lot of things that AI can do, that general native humans- that humans don’t need to do any more,” the minister said on the ULP Speaks radio programme on Monday, September, 8, 2025.

He pointed out that AI has many negatives, but also positives and the Unity Labour Party (ULP) has an AI policy, “that we are going to roll out in our next term in office to take advantage of the many, many positives of AI and guard against some of the abuses and negatives”.

Gonsalves told listeners that AI is a reality that we have to grapple with, adding that it is a fact that AI also is going to make some jobs obsolete.

“AI is going to make a number of- when I say, AI, I don’t just mean ChatGPT when people talk about AI, sometimes they say, ‘boy, I go on ChatGPT, and I make it write my exam paper for me’ and so on and so forth,” he remarked.

“The basic, large language models- AI, ChatGPT, Copilot Gemini these are called large language models, and they’re getting better every day, and they can do incredible things, but that’s only a segment of what AI is,” Gonsalves explained.

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