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Ministry of Digital Transformation

  • Have you heard about the invasion of bedbugs in one of Europe’s countries? And seen a photo of Pope Francis in a white puffer jacket? Even if the news sounds credible and the photo on the screen in front of you looks completely real, these two cases are among the more well-known examples of disinformation that has been exposed.

  • During the Tuesday afternoon session of the second day of the Global Forum on the Ethics of AI, and before the official evening closing, five panel discussions took place, addressing the many benefits of using inclusive and trustworthy AI, the pathways to it, and the possibilities of making AI a reality.

  • Instead of artificial intelligence, we could use the term virtual intelligence, as powerful machines are still far from being intelligent, and instead of an ethics of artificial intelligence, we could talk about the ethics of those who use modern technologies, said Igor Papič, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, in his opening remarks on the second day of the Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

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  • ALT-EDIC seeks a Director

    ALT-EDIC seeks a Director who will lead the Alliance for Language Technologies EDIC (ALT-EDIC), a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (one of the first), aimed at developing a common European infrastructure in Language Technologies, focusing particularly on Large Language Models. It seeks to improve European competitiveness, increase the availability of European language data and uphold Europe’s linguistic diversity and cultural richness.

  • The path to AI is our helpful and welcome assistant, not a fear or a threat

    "We are aware that AI can improve our lives, but it can also pose certain dangers," said dr. Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Minister for Digital Transformation, at a press conference in the middle of the first day of the Global Forum on the Ethics of AI.

  • The CEF Digital Info Day – Call 3 for proposals

    In cooperation with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT) and the Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA), we invite you to the CEF Digital Info Day for the third Call for proposals under the digital strand of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Programme. The CEF Digital Info Day will take place online on Thursday, 30th of November 2023, between 10:00 a.m. CET and 12:30 p.m. CET.