Bill Gates meets Meloni on AI

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 18 - Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Thursday met Premier Giorgia Meloni at her office in Rome as part of a round of talks Italy is having on Artificial Intelligence having made AI one of the priorities of its current Group of Seven presidency.
    Also present at the encounter was the government's pointman on AI, Gregorian University professor Father Paolo Benanti, who told reporters afterwards that Gates had stressed the "importance of AI being in the right hands." He said the Microsoft founder had "underscored, as a technologist, the great advantages in the optimisation of some processes that may come but had also highlighted the risks, stressing that the technology must be in the right hands".
    Gates, he said, had said "different approaches are needed." (ANSA).