The Inter-American Development Bank Group convened heads of state and government officials from twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries alongside senior executives from Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Nvidia to advance a shared roadmap for broad and safe adoption of artificial intelligence in the region. Held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, leaders called for the development of a regional mechanism that would embed a common strategy and joint investment guidelines. The discussion was informed by the forthcoming IDB flagship report, "From Digitalization to Artificial Intelligence: Turning Promises into Productivity," to be published in November as the 2026 edition of the Development in the Americas series. According to the report, broad adoption of AI and large labor-productivity effects could raise regional GDP by 5.1% after a decade, while limited adoption and small productivity effects would lift GDP by only 0.3%. The study also found that wages could increase by 2.3% to 5.3% over a decade if workers move into expanding job areas, but could fall by 13.5% to 20.9% if they cannot. Participants included the heads of state of The Bahamas, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, and Uruguay, as well as Colombian Vice President José Manuel Restrepo, Guatemalan Minister of Planning and Programming Carlos Mendoza Alvarado, Bolivian Minister of the Presidency Fernando Aramayo, and Brazilian Minister of Management and Innovation Esther Dweck.
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