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Europe is adopting a transparent and democratic framework for integrating AI into critical energy infrastructure, aligning with progressive policy goals.
Rogério Casanova argues that not all functional academic writing—such as recommendation letters or election manifestos—needs to be crafted by highly skilled humans. He advocates for more explicit manifestos and institutional policies governing the use of AI in universities, allowing routine and low-value writing to be delegated to tools while preserving human oversight where it matters. The column frames such manifestos as pragmatic, ethical guides to protect quality, fairness and accountability in higher education’s adoption of AI.
Inês Lynce, chair of INESC‑ID and co‑director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Programme, argues Portugal must act to retain professionals skilled in generative artificial intelligence and adapt education and policy to do so. She urges a wider societal pause to define what we want from AI, calling for clearer public information, informed debate and targeted retention and training measures to align technological development with public interest.
European regulation vetoes systems capable of generating unauthorised nudity and content involving minors. Companies will have new deadlines for adaptation and strengthening of safeguards.
The global AI debate is currently dominated by a 'frontier' race focused on massive generative models, where the US leads. However, China is quietly pursuing an alternative strategy: positioning AI as a fundamental production input by focusing on mass adoption and diffusion across industrial, logistics, and distribution sectors. For the European Union, which is caught between US innovation and Asian scale, this pragmatic approach—prioritizing industrial integration over the pursuit of frontier models—offers a viable path to economic relevance. By shifting from a punitive regulatory stance to one that facilitates implementation through sector-specific 'sandboxes' and reducing compliance costs for SMEs, Europe could leverage its strong industrial base to become a leader in applied AI.
The European Parliament approved a ban on AI systems that generate sexually explicit images on Tuesday, June 16. The measure, which still requires formal adoption by the EU Council, prohibits systems that create child sexual abuse material or non-consensual sexual imagery. Companies have until December 2 to ensure compliance. The move follows an investigation into the AI tool Grok, which was accused of disseminating millions of sexualized images, including those of minors.
Washington's export controls on Anthropic spark renewed calls for Europe to accelerate development of its own cutting-edge AI models.
While Europe is already applying a version of AI rules, the United States is preparing its first major federal law for the sector. What is at stake and what impact could it have on the future of technology?
The code was drafted by “six independent experts, with contributions from more than 180 stakeholders”, explains the European Commission.
Following another CEIIA conference, this time featuring Siemens Portugal CEO Sofia Tenreiro, a brief reflection on the importance of technology in our economy and society. Since technology—and AI in particular—became part of our daily lives, the economy has been confronted with an increasingly competitive and global value agenda, and society with the need to make a permanent compromise between access to ever-available information and the preservation of an essential private space. Building a Technological Society is a complex challenge that cuts across all actors and requires a capital of collaborative commitment from everyone. With technology, our society has changed significantly, and the degree of freedom for people to participate has reached a dimension never before possible—information is now available at all times and serves as the basis for new strategic intelligence platforms, driving new collaboration networks and solutions for emerging problems. Technology has accelerated the capacity and pace of execution in an increasingly demanding context of competence. Despite the enormous progress made with technology, empirical signs show a less positive reading of many societies' behaviour regarding the requirements that innovation and creativity imply. Consolidating a modern Technological Society requires, first and foremost, knowing how to answer the following questions: what path should be taken for technology, and AI in particular, as central instruments of an active public intervention policy as a transversal matrix for the renewal of our society? How can companies (especially SMEs) become relevant actors in creating value and ensuring adequate standards of quality and social life in a scenario of increasing economic 'offshoring'? What is the effective role of education as an essential framework for adapting social actors to the new challenges of the knowledge society? How can we reconcile education and AI moving forward? What is the role of science as an area capable of balancing the urgency of technology with the inevitability of its necessary practical applicability to induce a structured culture of innovation? What is the effective meaning of employability and social inclusion policies as instruments for promoting a global goal of social cohesion? What should be done for all those who, due to unemployment, feel increasingly marginalised by the system? Technology is part of this new era we are living in. Never before has it been so important to have an inclusive and integrative Technological Agenda that acts as a true operator of modernity and the construction of a future that is already here today.
Anthropic is expected to provide the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) with access to Claude Mythos, its artificial intelligence (AI) model specialised in cybersecurity, following its introduction in the United States back in April. According to Bloomberg (paywall), citing sources close to the matter, the company led by Dario...
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Officials debate how to define “intimate parts” in a draft ban on AI nudification tech.
MEPs approve a ban on AI 'nudification' systems. The regulation includes rules regarding the origin of audio, image, video, or text content created by AI.
Alípio Jorge led the strategy for artificial intelligence in 2019. Now the Government's agenda is a framework with the same pillars but oriented towards the economy. 'Portugal has room to improve.'
AI is no longer a mere option: it is one of the major drivers of proactivity and a tool of economic power. The only question is whether the agenda launched by the government is up to the challenge or will be yet another well-intentioned promise.
Paulo Cunha says that, from a political perspective, the measure/framework functions as a sort of constitution for artificial intelligence.
Responsible AI requires regulation as a safeguard against potential threats to rights and ethical values. Opinion by A. Betâmio de Almeida.
Students will continue to use AI; they will just do so covertly, without any framework, without literacy and without ethics. Opinion by Nelson Zagalo
In the fourth episode of the .IA Podcast, Jorge Portugal, director-general of COTEC, explains what companies lack to increase productivity with artificial intelligence (AI) and discusses the difficulty of changing processes in the country. He also warns that the rules for support for innovation and AI cannot be the same as in the past...
The CEO of Microsoft calls for a fairer sharing of the gains from artificial intelligence, warning that concentrated benefits could lead to an economic 'bubble'.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, recognised in Davos Europe's leadership in privacy protection, but warned that this advantage on its own does not guarantee competitiveness in the age of artificial intelligence.
Teachers and students reject the proposed ban on artificial intelligence in educational settings contained in a manifesto published over the weekend.
Nearly 30 academics from several Portuguese universities warn, in a manifesto, about the risks of using generative artificial intelligence tools in higher education. In an interview with Expresso, the main driving force behind the initiative speaks of the 'widespread use' of these technologies by students in academic assignments.
Dozens of professors from higher education institutions across the country have signed a manifesto against the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), warning of the transformation of students into “digital The post Digital idiots: university professors call for ban on use of AI in Higher Education appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Argues that prohibiting artificial intelligence in universities is unrealistic and misguided, highlighting the impracticality of an outright ban and the negative consequences for teaching, learning and academic progress.
A manifesto signed by dozens of professors. They want to put an end to the deluge of 'artificial assignments systematically brought down to mediocrity by a chatbot'.
In the race to lead in artificial intelligence (AI), the European Commission took a decisive step in October by presenting the Apply AI strategy. The initiative aims to accelerate AI adoption in SMEs and public bodies by using a new governance model that brings together industry, academia, the public sector and a European AI observatory. ...
