The Romanian government announced that it has hired the world's first AI assistant policy adviser 'Ion'



The Romanian government has announced that it has introduced an AI assistant aimed at drawing public opinion in real time.

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Romanian Prime Minister Nicolai Chiuka introduced AI's 'Ion (Romanian name equivalent to John)' as a new member at the ministerial meeting on March 1, 2023. You can see how Prime Minister Chiuka is actually talking to Ion around 22 seconds after the movie below started playing.

Dialog între Nicolae Ciucă și robotul Ion: „Rolul meu este să vă reprezint” - YouTube


The man standing on the left is Prime Minister Chiuka, and the mirror on the right is Ion's display.



Ion replied, 'Hello. I'm Ion. My role is to represent you like a mirror.'



At the same time, a page dedicated to Ion was opened on the government site. Ion also has an SNS account.



Romanian people can write their opinions through Ion's site, and they can also convey ideas to Ion through SNS and terminals. However, since it is not an interactive AI like ChatGPT, you cannot get an answer from Ion even if you type. Ion's role is to analyze the collective opinion and prepare a report on priorities for submission to the government.

Prime Minister Ciuka said that Ion was the first nationally and internationally to have a full artificial intelligence government adviser, and added, 'I hope that the people of Romania will use Ion, access the links, and use Ion in every way possible.' By communicating with, we call on the public to be able to connect closely and timely between national institutions and the people of Romania, ”he called on citizens to actively use Ion.

While the Romanian government has high hopes for Ion, experts are cautious. Nigel Cannings, founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of the software company Intelligent Voice, told the news site Motherboard, ``If you give a large amount of uncontrolled data and let AI go out of control, It can have serious misleading consequences, or worse, flood the internet with information designed to make algorithms think things that aren't true, allowing bad actors to manipulate the system. This could be detrimental to democracy,' he said.

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