Romania harnesses AI for data-driven policy recommendations
Countries around the world are beginning to grapple with the pervasiveness of artificial intelligence (AI). While some look to the emerging technology with concern, others like Romania are embracing it.
According to a report from the Financial Times, officials in Romania have introduced an AI-powered robot named Ion, with the goal of enhancing the government’s understanding of public concerns.
Sebastian Burduja, Romania’s innovation minister, commented on the development saying:
The bot obtains data through automatic scans of social media, a particular hashtag and messages from the public via an online platform set up for this specific purpose. The data is then transformed into reports for government officials.
Burduja said “the dream” would be for the AI to propose policy recommendations based on the data it receives from the public.
Sabin Dima, the founder and CEO of the company behind Ion, Humans.ai, told Cointelegraph that by allowing officials to have “conversations with the data” decision making can be improved to better serve citizens’ needs.
Dima said Human.ai is currently working with an independent ethical council made of independent e-government experts and researchers from top universities to help the bot “maintain its neutrality and ethical code."
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According to the developers, at least one report has been created from the data since the project was launched in March. It is expected to have an upgrade this summer which will allow it to give answers, and be equipped with a dashboard for officials to filter data based on various parameters.
This comes as the European Union prepares its AI Act - the union’s first set of comprehensive
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