Madam Director:
The approval, with transversal support, of the constitutional reform that modifies Article 19 number 1 of our Fundamental Charter is a clear and well-founded demonstration that scientific and technological issues should and must be present, as a priority, in the discussion of the Constitutional Convention.
Both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies endorsed the call of Chilean and foreign scientists on the need to have a regulation that protects, especially, brain activity and the information derived from it, in the face of the advance of neurotechnologies.
This puts us at the forefront in terms of neuro-rights of constitutional rank, but they will be a dead letter if they do not materialize in laws that designate the body in charge of stopping the eventual sinister use of Artificial Intelligence, and above all that there are exemplary sanctions, with prison sentences for those unscrupulous who cross the barrier.
These are the first steps of a framework that hopefully will be deepened in the Constituent Convention, and will serve as support for those who sweated the fat drop to get the votes for the establishment of the recently created Commission on Systems of Knowledge, Cultures, Science, Technology, Arts and Heritage. It is there where the constituent members of the Constituent Assembly will have to germinate a regulation that promotes new knowledge and its practical application, but always with due safeguards and guarantees for humanity.
Hector Pincheira | Financial Journal
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