President: Artificial Intelligence Revolutionising Health Care and Transport

Bratislava, December 12 (TASR) - Artificial intelligence (AI) is making inroads into health care, transport and the military, revolutionising people's lives, and Slovakia should thus harness AI's potential, especially to make the country function better, said President Peter Pellegrini at Bratislava Castle on the occasion of the Itapa conference, which focused on this topic. "Artificial intelligence is revolutionising our lives and changing the way we work in ways we might not yet imagine, which is why it's important that we talk about these things. On the one hand, artificial intelligence brings a huge number of advantages and positives, but on the other, it also brings a number of new phenomena that we'll have to talk about and from which we'll have to be able to protect ourselves in a realistic way," said Pellegrini. The head of state stressed that AI applications make people's lives easier by creating content that they can use effectively. In the same way, AI is making inroads into traffic regulation and the military and security sector, where various systems can recognise faces or monitor human movement. It's also playing an important role in health care, he stated, where it can efficiently evaluate samples from CT scans or X-rays, and it will also be key in the future for diagnosis. Slovakia should thus open up to new technologies, including artificial intelligence. am/df