Overview

• Menchú said artificial intelligence should be oriented to the common good rather than private interests or violence.
• She argued that dehumanization is caused by people who use technology for their own ends and warned against treating AI as infallible.
• The Nobel laureate urged a human touch—oversight and ethics—so AI advances education and reliable information instead of misinformation.
• She emphasized education, humility, listening and collective memory as tools to confront inequality and resist the normalization of violence.
• Her remarks came at Fundación Telmex/Telmex Telcel’s México Siglo XXI forum at Auditorio Nacional, opened by Carlos Slim Domit and attended by about 10,000 scholars along with guests including Kevin Costner and Serena Williams.