AI must focus on persons, Constitution says privacy G7

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 11 - The Group of Seven prìvacy summit ended Friday by stressing the importance of Artificial Intelligence focusing on persons and the Constitution.
    "Artificial Intelligence and a reflection on rights and freedoms were the glue of these three days of work. "The guiding principle of the Authority is to put the person at the center and respect for the Constitution", said the final reflection of the G7 of Privacy guarantors, conveyed in the concluding press conference of Pasquale Stanzione, President of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data and Ginevra Cerrina Feron, vice president.
    "(There can be) no opposition to progress as long as it is accompanied by the sharing of our regulatory principles," they underlined, "and artificial intelligence and new technologies must not be the source of new injustices and excessive concentrations of public-private power.
    "On this", they added, "we have found broad convergence in these days of the G7".
    Finally, the role and independence that the Privacy Authorities must have in the "governance of AI, regardless of political choices" to ensure "neutrality and impartiality" was underlined.
    (ANSA).