By: Diego Oliveira Farias

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Regulating the Regulation: How the TCU Exercised Its Independence to Address Artificial Intelligence Challenges in the Brazilian Public Sector

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector has placed Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) at a new frontier of oversight. Amid promises of increased efficiency and significant risks to ethics, transparency, and accountability, the role of SAIs demands technical discernment and institutional autonomy.

Audit and blockchain technology  

Blockchain technology originated in 2008 when an author codenamed Satoshi Nakamoto published the paper titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-To-Peer Electronic Cash System.” The publication presented an innovative combination of computing-related concepts – peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, cryptography, digital signature, hash functions, and a new consensus algorithm for distributed networks.

Evolution and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in SAIs

Over time, many definitions have been given to the term Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the association of the term with others, such as machine learning and deep learning, has resulted in difficulties for a better understanding of the topic.