Political relations between Slovakia and Czech Republic should improve, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini agreed with his Czech counterpart Petr Pavel at their meeting on the sidelines of the Global Action Summit on Artificial Intelligence in Paris on Tuesday.
"I regret that Slovak-Czech relations at the political level are not ideal today. We should do our utmost to ensure that they will once again live up to the above-standard and long-standing relations between the two brotherly nations," said Pellegrini.
At the same time, the Slovak and Czech Presidents agreed to discuss the possibilities of improving political relations between Slovakia and the Czech Republic at a meeting in the so-called Slavkov format (Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic). The next such meeting will take place at Slavkov Castle in Moravia on March 5.
The President also participated in a meeting of EU leaders at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday (February 10), where they discussed the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) with regard to the EU's competitiveness.
According to Pellegrini, the meeting's participants agreed on the need not only to further support innovation, science and research, but also to focus on building large computing data centers in Europe that would be able to process huge amounts of data and thus enable the further development of AI.
"It is essential that we change our perspective in areas such as health care, transport and education and enable Europe to become a market for the use of artificial intelligence, so that it's not only used by the private sector, but that governments will create space for using it wherever it benefits the public," stressed Pellegrini.
The leaders at the meeting also underlined the need to define appropriate ways to regulate AI jointly within the European market in order to maintain its protection against misuse or hoaxes. According to the president, Europe must make every effort if it wants to be a significant player in this area and at the same time compete with the United States and China.
Source: TASR
