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Please do not mention fake intelligence that is ruining Human鈥檚 Value! Muito Obrigado, Florent

Hello Florent,

My message was simply to gather feedback from members currently working on the ground, in order to better understand how present AI is in the Brazilian labour market at the moment. 馃槈

Cheers,

Cheryl

Cheryl,

I am pleased that you continue to ask the important questions in regard to EXPAT life in Brazil. I will go easy and just let you know that

"The Mae Belle Williamson Simmons Diversity Fellowships honor the legacy of a trailblazing Providence native whose lasting impact on the field of child psychology belied a life and career that were cut short."

She graduated from our Ivy League school, Brown University, in the mid '60s having made incredible accomplishments at Harvard and other institutions before she passed.

I won't tell you if I agree with your first commenter, but I am proud to be her first-born son, pictured in the Providence Journal, holding me next to my father at her graduation from Brown when I was just a toddler.

In answer to your question, I will only tell you that the day I need help from a robot it will be extremely cold and possibly freezing over in a location south of Brazil. 馃槒

Just to help you with your survey, I live in a small village in the Northeast and have not heard, witnessed or observed anyone who cares about AI.

2 March 2026

Cheryl, discussing AI on a forum that has a large audience is bound to be controversial.聽 Hence, I am only expressing my views with no desire to sway anyone.

I work in the AI field.聽 I have a full time job in the US but I can spend as much time as I want in Brazil.聽 My job requires me to interface with people from all over the world and being in the Brazil timezone is actually better for my productivity.

With the advent of AI, I am able to switch engineering roles within 1 or 2 weeks whereas it used to take 2 -3 months before.聽 This is because whenever I have a question, I can just ask the AI agent.聽 Of course, the answer is always suspect - but that's when experience matters.

It used to be that most, if not all Computer Science university graduate, have a guaranteed job.聽 Now, the new graduates face new competition in AI.聽 An AI agent can build a more efficient and better structured code聽 and faster than a newbie.聽 It used to be that you just need to know "if, then, else" like keywords and you can be productive.聽 Now, this is no longer the case.

AI is good at replacing the mundane tasks and allow users to optimize their tasks to "doing the real thinking".聽 There is a new field that is emerging from AI known as "prompting engineering" which is important to use AI to achieve its potential.

How will AI affect expats in Brazil?

1. New young expats
2. In the short term, expats who are experts in AI will tend to be digital nomads or other form of remote workers.聽 This is because AI requires a large compute infrastructure.聽 聽Estimated number of data centers: US 5000+ , Germany 550, UK 500, China 450, and Brazil 190.
3. Most of those remote workers will most like use VPN to access those infrastructure.
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5. Older expats contemplating retirement in Brazil
6. Domain expertise is what AI has not absorbed yet.聽 The most experienced workers are those who are approaching retirement.聽 In the short term, AI will not be able to replace this experience.
7. The opportunities for this age bracket can be used for good or for bad.
8. Large聽 leaps such as building a huge software company with only 1 or 2 people is possible.聽 However this can be used for nefarious purpose - think about the cyber-attacks and spam email bots....
9. For this demographic, doing consulting in retirement or not retiring at all falls in the realm of the possible.
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11. Expats in retirement
12. Automation using AI will be more and more common.聽 For example, access to parking lots will scan license plates and there will no longer be need to have an attendant.
13. There will be less and less in person interaction in places such as online order and / or phone support.
14. Life will definitely be different.

What will not be changed by AI:

Anything that needs a change in something physical - build a house, fix the leaking pipe, plant trees, etc... will still need manual intervention.

The opportunity of AI for Brazil

1. Build more datacenters - to take advantage of the huge hydroelectricity availability.聽 Brazil has tons of water - which is needed for cooling.
2. Brazil is amazingly not in a seismically active zone.聽 This simple fact can make Brazil one of the major data server backup location.

The drawbacks of AI for Brazil

1. One of the premier goals of AI is to automate factories.聽 This is going to a) a re-direction of capital investment from people wages and benefits to machines and software and b) This also means that people may be made redundant.
2. Brazil is unfortunately very mono-lingual.聽 AI tools tend to be in english - and most VLM (visual language models) tend to accept english prompting.聽 There are translators out there but it is not the same.
3. I am not sure if the country is willing to spend money to upgrade infrastructure to facilitate relocation of AI related machines.
4. Finally, once one deploys AI, it becomes an endless money pit and the only way to be profitable is to get as many users as possible to justify the ROI.聽 The technology in the AI world is obsolete every one or two years.

Hope that this helps.

03/03/26 I agree with @Pablo888.聽 The first effects of AI that we really see will be indirect, probably in noticeable improvements (and occasional breakdowns!) in the banking system (already highly computerized and quite advanced by international standards), logistics management, and app-based services.聽

As he rightly points out, the language barriers in monolingual Brazil are extremely high, and the absence of VLMs in Portuguese will be a limiting factor for some time.聽 And those that will probably emerge first in Spanish will be of even less use than the English ones.

The Brazilian economy continues to be relatively closed, except to the smaller neighboring economies of Mercosul.聽 Preserving industrial jobs is a priority for all of those economies. Underemployment is a chronic problem, so labor productivity is less important to them than sheer number of jobs.聽 In that environment, AI-driven factory automation is a pretty distant possibility.聽 The long, long, LONG awaited Mercosul-EU trade deal could be a gamechanger on that -- but only if the Europeans finally stop their footdragging.

The notion of harnessing Brazil's massive hydroelectric resources to build more datacenters is an intriguing one; the potential is certainly there.聽 Aside from the distances involved, the current condition of the national grid (the State of Roraima is still on Venezuela's grid rather than Brazil's because of logistic challenges!) and the need for much more transmission infrastructure are gating issues that aren't currently receiving much priority.

All the middle man or women will be replaced by AI since it is more efficient and does not need facilitators or distributors.聽 I was at a restaurant with a bunch of suits and I said half of these people in here are no longer needed in 10鈥� years.

TikTok made a large investment for building data centers in Brasil because people are more interested in their social media image than investing in their future.聽 Good thing there are politicians like Lula to give out free money. Expect Brasil to look like Argentina in 10 years.聽