Slovenia is already a European influencer in the field of artificial intelligence, said Mark Boris Andrijanič, actual Minister for Digital Transformation. As he pointed out at the European AI Forum in Ljubljana: “Slovenia has the highest number of AI researchers per capita in Europe”.
Slovenia hosts the UNESCO Centre for Artificial Intelligence and has an extremely vibrant AI community, minister Andrijanič told. “We pull our strength from more than four decades of artificial intelligence research at the world-renowned Institute Jožef Stefan,” he added. “During Slovenia’s presidency in 2021, EU Ministers endorsed the general approach on the digital services act, the digital markets act, the data governance act and the network and information systems security directive, which together form the backbone of new digital legislation in the EU,” said Andrijanič. According to him, the first compromise text for the artificial intelligence act was already prepared during the Slovenian presidency. This was the first comprehensive legislative framework for AI in the world.
The conference which addressed the essential challenges of AI deployment and the legislation dealing with issues of data in AI was organised by the AI4SI initiative and the Association for Informatics and Telecommunications at the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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