Government delegations of Venezuela and Iran They signed a cooperation agreement on training in artificial intelligence in Caracas, after several days of work as part of the tenth meeting of the High-Level Joint Commission between both countries.
In the presidential palace of Miraflores – headquarters of the Venezuelan Government -, they signed the cooperation agreement between the National Center for Information Technologies (CNTI) of the Caribbean country and the modern data center development company MDC of Iran, in matters of “technology transfer and training in artificial intelligence”.
The Venezuelan Minister of Transportation, Ramón Velásquez – who led his country’s delegation in these discussions – pointed out that an Iranian businessman is willing to “equip 50 schools” in Venezuela with “equipment for learning artificial intelligence.”
He also reported on the formation of the Venezuelan-Iranian Economic Integration Chamber (Caveniran), which will bring together businessmen from both countries with the purpose of “promote economic cooperation” and “product exchange”.
For his part, the Iranian Minister of Defense, Aziz Nasirzadeh – head of his delegation – expressed feeling “very pleased” to be in the “beautiful country of Venezuela”, and assured that “geographical distance has never been an obstacle to deepening of bilateral relations.
Both nations also signed a memorandum of understanding for the “exemption of visa requirements for ordinary passport holders.”
The Venezuelan head of state, Nicolás Maduro, congratulated both teams for having carried out a “perfect job to organize the extensive map” of cooperation that Caracas and Tehran have built, and predicted growth in bilateral trade and tourism.
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Maduro asked to evaluate actions in the face of “uncontrollable” social networks
In a previous meeting with students, the president called on take actions in educational matters so that the country knows how to “manage” artificial intelligence at the “highest level”, with the support of “strategic allies” such as Russia, China and Iran.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asked the country’s students evaluate actions that can be taken in the face of “uncontrollable” social networkswhich have – he warned – the objective of “poisoning the minds” of young people, and among them, he mentioned TikTok, of Chinese origin.
“What do we do with uncontrollable social networks that are managed from the outside? (…) If it were up to me, and I reacted radically, (…) I would close it completely in its access to Venezuelabut I don’t want to reach that decision without trying to act in another way,” he expressed at an event on the occasion of the national Student Day, broadcast on the state channel VTV.
According to authorities, three children died in the Caribbean country, where dozens of people were also injured and intoxicated, due to viral challenges circulating on TikTok.
He also proposed the creation of an office in the Ministry of Education dedicated to receiving complaints “in time” about risky challenges detected on social networksas part of “a control task”, so that the authorities act “quickly” in addressing these cases.
Fountain: EFE
