‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited San Francisco to promote Greece as an emerging tech hub and fact-finding mission on artificial intelligence. He highlighted the country's improved economic standing, including record debt repayment and new digital infrastructure investments funded by the EU. Mitsotakis expressed candid uncertainty about the societal impacts of AI, particularly regarding the rapid evolution of digital companions and the challenges of integrating AI into education.
- ▪Greece is set to regain developed market status from MSCI next year, signaling a strong economic recovery.
- ▪The country has invested approximately €36 billion from EU recovery funds into digital infrastructure, including a new supercomputer in Lavrio.
- ▪Mitsotakis noted that Greece's 10-year bond yield is currently around 4.3%, which is lower than the roughly 5% yield for U.S. Treasuries.
- ▪Greece is implementing a ban on social media for children under 15, though the Prime Minister acknowledged this may already be outdated due to AI chatbots.
- ▪The government has loosened labor laws and adjusted stock option taxes to attract tech companies and returning talent.
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something that heads of state on trade missions don’t typically do. In front of roughly 250 founders, investors and operators, he said openly that he doesn’t have answers to many of the AI questions leaders around the world are more privately debating. The prime minister, speaking with this editor at an event held along the waterfront edge of San Francisco’s Financial District, described his Bay Area trip as partly a fact-finding mission. He’d spent the morning touring Tesla and Sequoia Capital, among other stops, with plans to head this week to the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
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