Mexico Hires 300 AI Experts to Solve National Issues

Mexico City — The Agency for Digital Transformation and Telecommunications (ATDT) has announced it will hire 300 artificial intelligence specialists to help solve a series of identified problems in customs, tax collection, and weather forecasting in Mexico.

“From the first graduates, we intend to hire at least 300 directly ourselves at the Agency for Digital Transformation to solve problems with weather forecasting, tax collection, customs, and a series of problems we have identified,” said Jorge Luis Pérez Hernández, National Coordinator of Digital Infrastructure at the ATDT.

Each of the identified problems within the government of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo can be resolved with artificial intelligence, he stated during the Mexico AI+ Accelerated Investment Forum.

The plan is to have the human resources, so “we will be training during the next year and little by little we will also be acquiring hardware that can help us solve these problems,” pointed out the government official.

He recalled that the Mexican government provides certainty for companies to locate in Mexico and they see a future in investing in the Mexican economy.

“In artificial intelligence, we are preparing the 'México, Innovación' project, which was presented in its first part last week by the President of the Republic, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, at the Tecnológico Nacional in Tláhuac,” he indicated.

The project contemplates the training of 25,000 young people in Mexico, who will graduate next year with knowledge in artificial intelligence, specified Jorge Luis Pérez Hernández.

The youth will be given courses, which were created by the Tecnológico Nacional de México, which already has 250 universities throughout the country “and with the companies that lead the topic of artificial intelligence worldwide,” such as Nvidia, he specified.

“There are companies from all over, of all sizes, and they will be helping to provide the certifications, but also to give the artificial intelligence courses,” stated the official.

The intention is to have graduates in 6 months with the necessary capabilities to implement these technologies within the government, if not in the private sector.

The training of the artificial intelligence experts is a strategy involving the Secretariat of Science, Technology, Humanities and Innovation, the Secretariat of Economy, the Secretariat of Public Education, and the National Polytechnic Institute.

“The entire federal government is supporting and we are betting on these new technologies that we undoubtedly think will solve Mexico's problems and attract more investment,” he concluded.