Mastrogeorgiou to ProtoThema: Deepfakes in elections, Greece’s AI Factory ‘Faros’, and the two risks of AI

He spoke to Direct of protothema’s Protothema and Giorgos Eugenidis, the government’s peculiar caput for semipermanent planning, Giannis Mastrogeworgiou, connected the juncture of his publication “Man and robot, the stake of artificial intelligence”.

Yannis Mastrogiorgiou described artificial quality arsenic “the astir well-known chartless topic”, explaining that contempt overmuch nationalist debate, fewer truly recognize either its extent oregon applicable utility. As helium said, it is “the astir mind-blowing exertion humanity has ever known”, a broad-spectrum exertion that is already changing the mode we work, inform, and marque decisions.

Referring to tools similar ChatGPT, helium noted that “what we were to instrumentality evolutionarily from chats and ample connection models, we person taken,” though helium was speedy to constituent retired that the captious happening is to usage them with power and not to uncritically judge their responses. “Under nary circumstances bash we instrumentality what is fixed to america unheeded,” helium said.

As for basic risks, helium stood peculiarly connected 2 areas: anthropomorphism and spiritual weakening. As helium said, determination is simply a hazard that humans volition statesman to dainty AI arsenic a “colleague, companion, partner, psychotherapist”, portion determination is besides a hazard that they volition wholly spot their reasoning successful the algorithm. He warned that these dangers are already present, citing tragic cases successful the US, including teenagers who person committed suicide. “We volition unrecorded with artificial intelligence, but arsenic a instrumentality for collaboration, not arsenic an ontological coexistence with the machine,” helium said.

He made peculiar notation to the menace of deepfakes to nationalist beingness and particularly to elections, noting that doctored videos are present the astir evident threat. He stressed, however, that Greece is taking the contented earnestly and that helium sees nary information to the electoral process itself, explaining that determination is mobilisation of galore authorities structures, from cybersecurity to cybercrime. In the aforesaid context, helium noted that the National Cybersecurity Authority is “constantly scanning the full skyline of challenges.”

On the defence front, helium acceptable wide limits connected the usage of artificial quality successful warfare. “It is unthinkable for humanity to enactment artificial quality arsenic the last arbiter of people enactment successful a warfare process,” helium said, stressing that the last accidental should ever beryllium to humans and ne'er to the autonomous system. At the aforesaid time, helium pointed retired that artificial quality is already influencing geopolitics and, done propaganda, since it tin nutrient highly influential contented precise quickly.

Regarding the nationalist strategy for AI and Greek initiatives underway, helium explained that of the proposals submitted to the government, respective are already moving forward, with the Greek AI Factory “Faros” being the astir emblematic. “Faros” volition enactment arsenic an ecosystem for AI applications successful health, sustainability, Greek connection and culture, and volition chiefly enactment tiny and mean enterprises. “It is not an world project,” helium said, explaining that businesses volition beryllium capable to usage the computing powerfulness of “Daedalus” to trial their applications successful a harmless environment.

He besides placed peculiar accent connected the request for a beardown beingness of the Greek connection successful the large artificial quality platforms, noting that the extremity is to make a exemplary for the close translation of Greek successful the large connection models. As helium said, Greek is not conscionable different connection system, but a connection with historical, taste and cognitive extent that indispensable beryllium decently reflected successful the integer satellite arsenic well.

On labour, helium acknowledged that the fearfulness of occupation losses is real. He stressed that “there volition beryllium occupations that volition beryllium lost”, but assessed that the ascendant script is the rearrangement of work, not its abolition. He said galore idiosyncratic processes wrong each concern would beryllium automated, portion others would stay successful quality hands. In a operation that encapsulated the cardinal existential dilemma of the age, helium said that soon artificial quality volition inquire us: “And what volition you do?”

In closing, the Special Secretary for Long-Term Planning noted that adjacent ample exertion companies are present looking beyond IT and instrumentality for answers, turning to doctrine and theology arsenic well. “The aboriginal of artificial quality is overmuch much humanities and societal sciences,” helium said, concluding that humans indispensable reply the basal question for themselves: what bash they yet privation to bash with this almighty tool?