Greece participates in the international AI Action Summit, essentially as a co-shaper of European developments in this crucial field.
We are one of the first countries to have charted a coherent national strategy on Artificial Intelligence. We are one of the seven European countries selected to host an AI Factory, a major European funding initiative for the development of AI infrastructure in European countries. We are a country which has an extremely rich scientific talent pool active in the field of AI. We are a country in which many large foreign technology companies have already invested, setting up large data processing centres, large data centres.
We are a country that can be at the forefront of smart interventions to be able to control the negative effects of AI, and we are a country that is already using AI to improve the efficiency and productivity of public administration.
I am looking forward to a series of substantive meetings and our ability, as I said, not only to be able to use AI to make a “productivity revolution” in our country, but also to be able to identify those areas where state intervention is needed to limit its negative consequences.
I will mention here indicatively, once again, the mental health issues of children and young people, an issue that I am personally very concerned about and in which Greece has already played a leading role in order to ensure that our children and our teenagers do not suffer negative effects on their mental health as a result of their exposure to social media and information processed by artificial intelligence.
