A bill on Artificial Intelligence before Easter: this was announced by Alessio Butti, undersecretary of the presidency of the Council for Innovation, at the opening of the 17th edition of the RomeCup at the University of Tor Vergata.
In his speech Butti also underlined the need for Italy to equip itself with its own generative AI models.
"Before Easter we will present a bill on artificial intelligence", said Butti, opening the event organized by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and underlining that the choice made "is not secondary because, despite there being various urgency requirements, we believe that the discussion in Parliament is an important moment of discussion, also thanks to the many hearings with experts in the sector".
Butti recalled the important investment of 1 billion announced a few days ago by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, adding that there is also a further fund of around 800 million for investments in innovative start-ups.
"It's true that we were late in AI but with this last shot, Italy climbs onto the podium of public investments at a European level", added the undersecretary.
"Italy - he underlined - needs an Italian Large Language Model, our own generative AI model, a need felt by many companies and we have many projects, at least 5 university ones and many others from private individuals, in development".
According to Butti, one of the needs that the creation of an Italian ChatGpt can respond to is data security because the current models of American or Asian companies are processed following different standards, incorporate linguistic and cultural prejudices different from ours and have different attention to privacy.
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