Global experts debate AI impact

The 2025 Athens Democracy Forum commenced connected Tuesday, co-organized by Kathimerini, successful relation with The New York Times.

The special league focusing connected AI, morals and democracy, held astatine the Athens Conservatoire, delves into the intersection of artificial quality (AI), ethics, and antiauthoritarian governance.

During the archetypal time of the league Tuesday, Achilleas Tsaltas, president of the Democracy & Culture Foundation, emphasized AI arsenic “the cardinal interest of our era,” highlighting the request for solutions amidst planetary systemic challenges.

Dimitris Papastergiou, Greece’s curate of integer governance, cautioned that while AI is “exciting,” it indispensable stay “a servant, not a master.”

Axel Dauchez, laminitis of Make.org, warned of the ongoing struggle betwixt antiauthoritarian and authoritarian governance models, stressing the necessity of civic education.

The opening sheet featured Stathis Kalyvas, Gladstone Professor of Government astatine Oxford University, and Hélène Landemore, prof of governmental subject astatine Yale University.

Moderated by Kathimerini writer Xenia Kounalaki, the treatment explored AI’s interaction connected wide democracies, addressing issues similar planetary inequalities and the imaginable for AI to either exacerbate oregon alleviate them.

The day’s events concluded with a statement connected Aristotle’s ethical model arsenic a lens for evaluating AI’s challenges and opportunities.

The statement was moderated by Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, planetary president of The New York Times Company, with participants including Landemore, Kalyvas, and ethicists Peter Kirscherger, Fereniki Panagopoulou, and Stavroula Tsinorema.

The league continues connected Wednesday with panels presenting, among others, the blueprint of Greece’s AI transformation the AI sovereignty arsenic a concern exemplary and AI regulation.