Topic: 2025 – Artificial Intelligence and Resource Consumption
Country: Central African Republic
Delegate Name: Lia Rohrschneider
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been on the rise in more recent times, which causes lots of
natural resources to be used and incites environmental issues. A few prominent examples are
the following: usage of electricity, increased greenhouse gases, and high water usage. Artificial
Intelligence itself is a tool that most companies use to process information and imitate human
thinking. The United Nations itself has not done anything against the rise of artificial intelligence,
but they have been attempting to regulate the usage of it. For example, the UN Secretary
General established a High-Level Advisory Body on AI.
As a delegate from the Central African Republic, we find ourselves not very involved in
the entire process and usage of Artificial Intelligence itself. As a country, we are in the early
stages of our digital integration, and there hasn’t been much development with the usage of artificial
intelligence. The Central African Republic is also limited on resources that are required for the
usage of AI, so that would make it even harder to incorporate that into our country. As a country,
however, we have banned (by the government) a popular generative AI, ChatGPT. We have
already taken steps to get rid of some forms of AI in our country. While we have not passed any
laws that totally or somewhat prohibit it, we participate in practices to regulate it and manage it.
For example, the Africa Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, which highlights the fact that AI
should be managed by focusing on six pillars, which include: talent, data, compute infrastructure,
market development, investment, and governance. The Central African Republic has signed on
this document, which shows that our country is acting to manage Artificial Intelligence.
The Central African Republic would like to implement measures against Artificial
Intelligence. We would accomplish this by limiting the amount of resources that are used by
countries and also ensuring that the spread of AI is limited. We are also planning to partner with
other countries that support limiting Artificial Intelligence. We will not be fully banning it, as
it can still be useful in some specific categories. However, we will be limiting it so that the
measures it takes on the environment and the resources that are available will not be as drastic
and limited.
Works Cited
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/artificial-intelligence
https://aiworld.eu/geo/central-african-republic
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/9-african-countries-with-restricted-chatgpt-acces
s-and-ai-adoption/pyjqxj1
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-chatgpt-is-banned-in-2025/
https://c4ir.rw/docs/Africa-Declaration-on-Artificial-Intelligence.pdf
