Prime Minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to the fields in which artificial
intelligence could contribute to improve planned policies and public
administration in general, during a chat with MIT computer science
professor Constantinos Daskalakis, chairman of the Advisory Committee
on AI, at Serafio on Friday.
The discussion was
in the context of the ‘Greeks in AI 2025’ conference held on Friday
and Saturday at the center off Pireos Street.
“We must see
how AI could make exercising government better. What does improving a
public sector with AI mean,” Mitsotakis said, noting that the
first pilot program used in the Greek Cadaster (Ktimatologio) showed
the remarkable degree of improvement in productivity when AI is used
smartly.
He said that the
second field of policy application is the ecosystem of AI companies
being developed in Greece “with a great impetus”, as he
underlined, which does not address just the Greek market but allows
them to grow beyond it as well, by “using a regulatory framework
which will be adequately flexible in the sectors we want to add
flexibility to, but also adding restrictions wherever we think
controls and a framework to AI should be introduced, as in the field
of children’s and teenagers’ mental health.”
The health sector
was another field Mitsotakis referred to, “where very important
things could happen.” He also noted that in Civil Protection “we
have already incorporated initial-stage tools that allow us to
forecast the development of a fire.”
In addition, the
premier mentioned the defense sector as well: “Defense is a
chapter unto itself, in which when Greece has spent 28 billion euros
in the next 12 years, I will demand that there is Greek added value
to it.”
Finally, speaking of
education, he revealed that the government was already looking into
pilot programs with companies abroad for the digital future of the
university entrance examination prep schools (frontistiria). “How
can we support AI tools, in order to help children that are preparing
for the national exams,” Mitsotakis said.
