Greece Seeks Constitutional Rule Requiring AI to Serve Society
The proposal would also expand postal voting, lengthen mandatory schooling and ban retroactive taxation as officials seek long-term guardrails on AI use.
- Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined constitutional revisions on Thursday requiring Artificial intelligence to serve human society, aiming to safeguard future generations from risks to democratic governance.
- Greece has embraced technology since emerging from a major financial crisis eight years ago, upgrading border surveillance and rebuilding tax administration; this history drives Mitsotakis's push for constitutional guardrails.
- Dozens of broader constitutional changes accompany the Artificial intelligence proposal, including increasing mandatory schooling from nine to 11 years, expanding postal voting, and banning retroactive taxation.
- Evripidis Stylianidis, the government's lead lawmaker on constitutional revision, stated the changes will serve as long-term guardrails on Artificial intelligence use, with the process requiring votes by two successive parliaments.
- Some constitutional experts argue Artificial intelligence must legally serve democracy because private technology platforms operate beyond effective oversight; Last month the government unveiled plans for a social media ban for children younger than 16.
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"With his proposals, K. Mitsotakis confesses that the intensity of the anti-popular attack is a basic prerequisite for 'shielding' the economy," emphasizes the KKE. The post KKE: The government with the Constitutional Revision seeks to enshrine reactionary sections appeared first on in.gr.
Greece is preparing for a major constitutional reform, one of the most important elements of which is to regulate the social purpose of artificial intelligence. According to the planned amendment, the technology must serve human freedom and the common good.
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