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The Filing the AI Was Meant to Read
When a hidden prompt-injection instruction addressed to Brazil's court AI arrived in a 3rd Labor Court filing in May 2026, the model detected it before drafting began and alerted the judge. The fine that followed was the first sanction under CNJ Resolution 615/2025 to classify adversarial input as an attack on judicial impartiality. Three jurisdictions have now worked through that sequence; no other Latin American legal system has.
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Sunday Essay · Brazil's Sovereign AI Runs Through the Cell Tower
Brazil's sovereign-AI strategy is being built by a set of overlapping institutional decisions rather than by a chip fab or a frontier model: spectrum obligations attached to 700 MHz licences, a state-cloud intermediation layer at Serpro, Telefônica Brasil's portable OpenShift platform, and a CPQD-led public-services model. The coherence is architectural rather than planned, and the cell tower is its load-bearing unit.
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