Mattarella’s warning to the EU: "Let’s move on to the concrete rules"

About artificial intelligence “European Union must make a leap. Move from the enunciation of principles to concrete decisions. The strategies have been widely discussed. The appropriate policies must now be implemented, with the transition from the necessary production of rules to operations. It is essential that the member governments of the Union abandon timidity and reservations and that they do not hinder common action”. Sergio Mattarella addresses a warning to the European institutions in his speech at the XIX Cotec Europe symposium on the island of San Giorgio in Venice.

Also present at the conference Philip VIKing of Spain, and of Antonio José Seguropresident of Portugal. The Head of State was welcomed on his arrival by the governor of Veneto Alberto Stefani and by the mayor of Venice Simone Venturini.

Mattarella: “The challenge in AI is plural and complex”

“The challenge before us is plural and complex. It is one of the great tests of our time and no country can imagine facing it alone”, continued the President of the Republic. “Let’s not miss the opportunity to renew, adapting them to the future, the foundations of the union between innovation, Work e democracywhich characterized the 20th century. We owe it to the younger generations.”

“Do not demonize innovations but govern them”

“The dichotomy between benefits e threats of a technological leap occurs cyclically throughout history. Every great innovation has raised hopes and fears, generating progress when understood in its intrinsic purposes and oriented towards the progress of humanity”, is another passage from the head of state’s speech. “This dichotomy must be dissolved. Not in the direction of demonizing change. On the contrary: to enhance its immense positive effects. Knowing how to expertly govern it, with the ultimate aim of protecting the dignity of people, multiply the awarenesstherefore the freedomof citizens and knowing that the Work of each one is closely connected to it”.

Mattarella quotes the Pope: “Technology must not reduce man to a marginal element of automated processes”

Mattarella he mentioned Pope Leo XIVand his first encyclical ‘Magnifica humanitas’. “THE’artificial intelligence must respect the capabilities of each person, not reduce them to a marginal element of automated processes”, he explained speaking at the summit underway on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice, recalling how the Pontiff wrote that “the Work it remains a fundamental dimension of the human experience: not just a means of sustenance, but a place of expression, of relationships, of contribution to the community”.