"We are faced with the real possibility that many professions, even highly qualified ones, will be rapidly replaced by algorithms, causing social crises and contributing to widening the gap between rich and poor, potentially wiping out the middle class."
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated this in an interview with the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, on the day of her meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kashida, reiterating that the Italian presidency of the G7 will keep high attention on the topic of AI, in continuity with the "extraordinary work" carried out from Japan in 2023 "in calling attention to a technology that can generate great opportunities but can also hide enormous risks for our societies".
"We intend to focus the attention of our partners on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the world of work, involving not only companies but also civil society and trade unions to provide answers to what represents a concrete risk for our workers", he adds, underlining that "generative AI systems can have a decisive impact on the world of work, on information, on global balances and on our security. The Hiroshima AI Process is of crucial importance in this context, as it affirms the need to adopt guiding principles and a code of conducted for companies developing artificial intelligence. For our part - assures Meloni -, we will further develop this work to ensure that AI is human-centered and controlled by man, taking into account the fundamental ethical principles of humanity".
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