Greece has a specific and comprehensive strategy to utilize artificial intelligence (AI), to provide “better, faster, cheaper, and friendlier services to citizens and businesses,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Saturday at the second day of the ruling party’s congress.
Speaking at a panel on AI, the premier noted the AI’s implementation in health and education, and the infrastructure introduced in Greece included “a state-of-the-art supercomputer being built in Lavrio” for both public and private sectors.
“The question is, which party, which government, and which country will be able to utilize the power of AI for the benefit of citizens and collective prosperity at the end, while at the same time taking care to also control the negative effects of a revolution that is sure to change everything,” he said.
New enterprises in Greece should also be given the opportunity to utilize AI to grow and to be funded here, and to bring back Greeks working abroad, he continued. “That is where I believe we have assumed significant initiatives to create an ecosystem of businesses that can be creative, offer good jobs, produce products and services absolutely useful – some of them in the defense sector and critical for Greece’s future and the protection of strategic autonomy. How we can be safe without being dependent on others.”
