Zangrillo: 'Artificial intelligence is a useful tool but rules are needed'

"Certainly this tool (artificial intelligence) is a tool that will help us work better, to help our employees work better, but we must be able to give ourselves operating rules to prevent it from getting out of hand." Thus the Minister for Public Administration, Paolo Zangrillo, on the sidelines of the presentation of Auxil.ia Piemonte, artificial intelligence at the service of the Piedmontese public administration.

"The topic - said the minister - of artificial intelligence, as you know, is a topic on the agenda today, it is a priority on the agenda of all governments, not only national but international. There is a very heated and I would say very important debate on how to use a tool which, if not managed correctly, is a tool that can also cause damage".

"This initiative of the Piedmont Region - explained Zangrillo - is an initiative that gives me particular pleasure.

First of all, because it is in line with the commitments that the public administration at a national level is making on the use of artificial intelligence, and I am pleased because my region, the Piedmont Region, is the first to move by equipping itself with a tool that will certainly be a tool to support the public administration, but then let's say that if the public administration works better, this means that the services that we provide to our users, citizens and businesses, are increasingly closer to their expectations".