OPACIDADE TECNOLÓGICA ESTRUTURAL

REGIMES DE INFORMAÇÃO NA ERA DA IA

Abstract

Journalistic coverage of artificial intelligence in Brazil would be sustained, according to this paper's central hypothesis, by a structurally incomplete informational substrate, associated not with editorial oversight but with corporate patterns of non-disclosure. The objective of this paper is to formally delimit structural technological opacity as an analytical category for Information Science, defined as the recurrent and systematic pattern of non-disclosure, by AI corporations, of information about the functioning, impacts, and conditions of production of their systems, reproduced by systemic incentives and whose persistence restricts the construction of a baseline for informed regulatory, scientific, and social response. The methodological procedures are those of theoretical-analytical research with critical document analysis, triangulating peer-reviewed literature, corporate documents as evidence of disclosure patterns, and Brazilian and European regulatory instruments as illustration of normative gaps. The analysis indicates that three dimensions, socioenvironmental, informational, and social, can be read as manifestations of a common mechanism: the systematic absence of information that tends to benefit corporations at the expense of collective capacities for knowledge and control, a condition exacerbated, in the Brazilian context, by the absence of regulatory frameworks equivalent to European ones and by the country's peripheral position in the global artificial intelligence ecosystem. The implications of this pattern for Brazilian digital journalism are treated as an analytical hypothesis for empirical exploration, not as a result of journalistic corpus analysis. It is concluded that Information Science requires categories capable of operating at the level of material infrastructure, naming mechanisms rather than describing effects.