The country that held the first election in the Americas is preparing for a vote that could be influenced by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The past and present of electoral processes is the theme of Caminhos da Reportagem this Monday (23), at 11:30 pm, on TV Brazil. Brazil, which has always faced challenges in its electoral processes, is looking forward to a challenging future. While guaranteeing rights is still a daily struggle, technology brings new horizons and issues that can change the course of elections in the country.
For centuries, the right to vote was only for rich, white men. “It was centered on the elite who wanted to continue ruling, as they still do today,” says writer and journalist Eduardo Bueno. Women, indigenous people and black people only had this guarantee in the last century.
In the case of women’s voting, it was only in 1932. Today, even though they represent 52% of the country’s electorate, women’s presence in politics is still low: in the Chamber of Deputies it is 18% and in the Senate, 12.3%. “In a year of municipal elections, almost a thousand municipalities in Brazil do not have any women in their City Councils,” points out former TSE minister and lawyer Maria Cláudia Bucchianeri Pinheiro.
Today, in her sixth term in the Chamber of Deputies, Benedita da Silva emphasizes the importance not only of voting, but also of women’s participation in political life and emphasizes the importance of municipal elections. “It is in the municipality that you fight for water, basic sanitation, decent housing, schools, hospitals, asking for public services to go up to the favelas.”
This year, one of the main issues to be addressed is the use of artificial intelligence in electoral campaigns. “Disinformation accompanies elections, but it gains strength with the development of technology,” says journalist Sérgio Lüdtke. The Brazilian Academy of Electoral and Political Law (ABRADEP) is also paying attention to the use of AI. “We will see a violent impact from the use of these new technologies in the election and, unfortunately, in the electoral result,” says advertising professional Bruno Hoffmann, a member of the academy.
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Reporting Paths – Elections without filters
Monday, September 23, at 11:30 pm, on TV Brasil
