Vucic: Serbia to chair GPAI

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Thursday Serbia would be chairing the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) in the next three years, as co-chair in the first and the third year and as lead chair in the second year, and noted that this was "magnificent news for Serbia."

"It is difficult to emphasize enough how important this is for our country in terms of presence in global trends of development of artificial intelligence," a statement released by the presidential press office quoted Vucic as saying.

Established in 2020 at the proposal of French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, GPAI is an initiative aiming to set global rules and standards for AI development and to accelerate it globally.

Serbia was admitted to the 29-member initiative by consensus a little over a year ago.

Its key members include the US, the UK, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, France, Germany, Turkey and the EU.

Last year's GPAI summit was hosted by India and Serbia could host the next summit in Belgrade.

"Proud of Serbia! Big things are yet to come. Congratulations to the citizens of Serbia!" Vucic concluded.