Proposals for an Italian strategy for AI have been developed by the Expert Group on artificial intelligence selected by the Ministry of Economic Development and published in July 2020.
Name in original language
Proposte per una Strategia italiana per l'intelligenza artificiale
Initiative overview
The group that drafted the AI Proposal was composed of 30 artificial intelligence experts selected by the Ministry of Economic Development. The Group met six times between January and May 2019, and was structured in subgroups dedicated to ethics and regulations, research and technological development, data economy, training and skills building and public administration. During the group's activities, the General Directorate for Industrial Policy, Competitiveness and SMEs of the Ministry for Economic Development provided constant support both from a logistics and contents point of view. Italy released a (strategic) report on AI in March 2018. This report exclusively focuses on how the government can facilitate the adoption of AI technologies in the public administration.The report identified 9 challenges to be addressed for a national AI strategy.Challenge 1: EthicsChallenge 2: TechnologyChallenge 3: SkillsChallenge 4: Role of dataChallenge 5: Legal contextChallenge 6: Accompanying the transformationChallenge 7: Preventing inequalitiesChallenge 8: Measuring the impactChallenge 9: The human beingThe initiative has the following objectives:To develop a strategy for AI in Italy.
Who has primary responsibility for developing the national AI strategy?
Ministry
Name of responsible organisation (in English)
Task Force on Artificial Intelligence of the Agency for Digital Italy
Who has primary responsibility to implementing the national strategy?
Ministry
Name of responsible organisation for strategy implementation (in English)
Task Force on Artificial Intelligence of the Agency for Digital Italy
Budget information available?
Not applicable
To what extent do you have mechanisms or other efforts to involve stakeholders in strategy design, implementation and monitoring?
Expert consultation(s) and other engagement.,
Stakeholder consultation(s) and other engagement.,
Public consultation(s) and other engagement.
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Has this initiative been evaluated?
Yes
Are evaluation results public?
No
