Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Dec 13.- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla criticized the ideological bias of Grok, the artificial intelligence system of X, and urged vigilance regarding digital tools presented as impartial.
According to his comments on that same social network, the Media Observatory of Cubadebate on Grok confirmed something serious: the artificial intelligence systems shaping public opinion today have ideological biases.
And in Cuba's case, he emphasized, it confesses that those biases are clearly anti-communist and liberal-conservative.
Following the publication of the Cubadebate study and our public statement, the AI itself responded on X that it recognizes Grok has a right-wing bias on some topics, he stated.
For the head of Cuban diplomacy, a system of this scope admitting political bias, even if it says it is slight, should raise all alarms about its neutral use.
This is not just about Cuba, he noted, pointing out that he is referring to global platforms, controlled by large corporations and billionaires, whose AI decides what is credible, what is true, and what is labeled as propaganda.
If those algorithms are ideologically inclined, so too will be their verdicts, he asserted.
The battle for truth, he said, is being waged in opaque systems that combine data, algorithms, and language models trained with biased content.
It is a new dimension of the media war against sovereign and social justice projects, opined the Chancellor of the Caribbean nation.
We demand algorithmic transparency, independent audits, and the right of States and peoples to know the criteria with which these AIs are trained and adjusted, he demanded.
Similarly, he proclaimed that Cuba does not accept that foreign corporations decide, without democratic control, how the reality of their country should be told.
Cuba will continue defending a sovereignty that is also informational and digital. We will denounce every attempt to use technology as a political weapon against our people, and we will continue betting on responsible communication, based on facts, and not on programmed prejudices, declared Rodríguez Parrilla.
The question is not only whether AI works well, but for whom it works and against whom it is used, he pointed out.
The Foreign Minister also noted that the Grok-Cuba case is a warning: we cannot be naive about tools presented as neutral when they themselves admit they take sides. (PL) (Photo: Taken from the Internet)
