Greece, birthplace of democracy, seeks to put humanity ahead of AI in updated constitution

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seen speaking to his New Democracy party’s parliamentary group, successful Athens, connected Thursday, April 7, 2026. [Nikos Halkiopoulos/InTime News]

Greece is preparing large law changes, including an amendment requiring that artificial quality service quality society.

Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined the projected revisions connected Thursday, casting them arsenic indispensable to safeguard aboriginal generations fixed planetary concerns astir AI’s risks to antiauthoritarian governance and humanity itself.

“It’s very important that, successful this process of law revision, we take attraction of the world that will big our children,” Mitsotakis told lawmakers from his governing center-right party.

The projected changes would see a proviso that says: “Artificial quality shall service the state of the idiosyncratic and the prosperity of society, ensuring that risks are mitigated and that the advantages it provides are afloat realized.”

Dozens of different changes would see expanding postal voting, expanding mandatory schooling from 9 to 11 years and banning retroactive taxation.

“These challenges already predominate today: from the clime situation and extortion of water resources to renewable vigor sources, but supra each the use of artificial intelligence,” the premier curate said. “This large gyration indispensable besides beryllium constitutionally placed astatine the work of idiosyncratic state and κοινωνικά well-being.”

The lengthy revision process involves a bid of votes by two successive parliaments and typically requires some cross-party support.

Greece has been an anxious adopter of AI and modern technology since emerging from a large fiscal situation 8 years ago, upgrading borderline surveillance and rebuilding its tax administration.

A almighty authorities services level present manages everything from obtaining a divorcement to buying tickets for home soccer matches.

Last month, the authorities unveiled plans for a afloat κοινωνικά media prohibition for children younger than 16 — a determination it said was intended to unit the European Union to follow akin rules.

Some law experts successful Greece reason AI indispensable beryllium legally required to service ideology due to the fact that large backstage technology platforms present clasp capable information and powerfulness to run beyond effectual nationalist oversight.

Evripidis Stylianidis, the government’s pb lawmaker connected the law revision, said the changes would service arsenic a semipermanent guardrail connected AI use.

“Many issues today are defined astatine the planetary level,” helium told state vigor Thursday. “The extortion and due use of artificial quality touches each quality rights successful regular beingness and is something that indispensable interest us successful the law revision.” [The Associated Press]