Cátia Pesquita, LASIGE integrated member, gave her opinion on Artificial Intelligence (AI), on 10 February 2025, as part of a news piece on the AI Action Summit in Paris, which will discuss AI tools for everyone, regulation in the sector, impacts on work and private life.

Technology and regulation divide USA and Europe, and Portugal will only be launch the AI Agenda in March 2025.

In view of the advances in the use of AI in the world, Pesquita emphasised that ‘Europe is now competing with a different focus, on what it does better, which is Open Science, in other words AI for good’ and also added “What we used to imagine as science fiction is now possible with AI, but what we need to worry about is achieving Science and not fictional scenarios that are a long way off or will never be realized”.

Cátia Pesquita on “Telejornal” RTP1’s news programme (36:39-37:56, 37:43-38:02): here.