Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday underlined what he called the potential to create strong AI models in Europe while maintaining European values, language and culture intact, speaking at the 4^th GenAI Summit underway in Athens at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Mitsotakis, who previously shown heightened interest vis-a-vis the concept, growth and expanded use of AI, also said that developing such technologies in Europe shows that the AI industry does not have to rely entirely on the United States.

He also highlighted what he called Greece’s progress in digital transformation, citing, among others, the creation of a ministry of digital governance in 2019 as a milestone.

Mitsotakis said one pilot project underway has dramatically accelerated a review of documents compiled by notaries public, saying that processing time has dropped from two hours to 10 minutes.

Referring to Greece’s often creaky justice system, he said AI has the potential to simplify procedures, reduce workloads and allow judges to concentrate on substance of cases on their docket.

Conversely, he cited two major concerns, namely, unsupervised students using AI and its effects on education, and secondly, risks for democratic institutions due to advanced misinformation tools.