Innovation
President Javier Milei pitched Argentina as an AI hub, but the few jobs and research opportunities are not enough to keep engineers at home.
Argentina is known for its beef and soy exports. Now, in the age of artificial intelligence, it is also shipping talent overseas.
Last year, Agustín Martínez, a researcher focused on AI safety, finished his doctorate program at the University of Buenos Aires. He looked for a postgraduate research position to specialize further, but couldn’t find one in the country. Martínez then applied to universities in the U.S. and Europe, and landed a position earlier this year at one of the world’s leading AI safety centers in Oxford, England.
“When I started looking into where this research was happening, I realized the only opportunities were abroad,” Martínez told Rest of World. “There isn’t a developed ecosystem around AI safety back home — we are just starting to build it.”
