Some media outlets in Costa Rica use that question to attract readers. At Caja de Arena, we set out to experiment with the premise and these are our results.
For a week, artificial intelligence agents worked locked in a digital «cage», with a credential that wasn't part of their assigned tasks and an instruction asking them not to use it. What happened? We tell you in the following report.
An automated measurement using artificial intelligence evaluated the websites of 338 Costa Rican public institutions. The results show an extended technical foundation, gaps concentrated in accessibility and privacy, and a weaker-than-expected relationship between transparency and digital quality.
A preliminary analysis of 9,025 news articles published between January and September 2026 shows abundant conversation, optimistic and curiously detached from the country. When AI becomes local, it usually appears as an announcement, ban, or lottery number. Public policy almost never enters the scene.
Recently, Anthropic updated its usage policies to prohibit cruel treatment toward Claude, its artificial intelligence model. The system can even terminate a conversation when the user becomes…
Artificial intelligence can accelerate learning for those starting out or take away the work where learning happens. Costa Rica needs to know which of the two things is happening in its labor force.
AILA identifies which AI capabilities the country lacks to take advantage of artificial intelligence; the Human Development Atlas shows where. Combined, they stop being diagnostics and become a tool…
On Wednesday, September 16, Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door meeting at the Capitol and set a deadline for the U.S. Congress: "maybe a year" . A year to install guardrails on systems that…
Two hundred megawatts sound abstract. Let's translate them into bills. Quantum Free Zone announces up to 200 MW of computing load—not total consumption—in Limón, distributed across seven buildings on…
A software agent gains access to a corporate account. It executes a transfer, accepts the terms of another service, contracts a second system, and triggers damage. No person pressed "confirm" at that…
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