AI와 유럽 보안 정책에 대한 라트비아의 야망

### EU의 역학 관계 속에서 라트비아의 기술 및 방위 분야 야망
* 🇪🇺 라트비아는 민관 파트너십을 통해 **국립 인공지능 센터를 설립**하여 유럽 내 기술, 특히 인공지능 분야의 선두주자로 자리매김하고 있습니다.
* 💼 새로운 위원에 대한 유럽 위원회의 제안은 **균형 잡힌 것으로 보이지만, 유럽 의회의 승인이 필요**하기 때문에 강도 높은 조사가 이루어질 수 있습니다.
* 🔒 라트비아는 AI의 경쟁 환경과 소셜 미디어로 인한 문제를 모두 해결하고자 하며, **허위 정보 및 선거 개입과 같은 문제를 완화하기 위해 균형 잡힌 규제 접근 방식**을 모색하고 있습니다.
* ✈ 최근 드론 사건으로 안보 우려가 높아진 가운데 라트비아는 **우크라이나에 대한 방공 지원과 동쪽 측면의 위협에 대한 집단적 접근의 필요성**을 강조하며 NATO의 강력한 대응을 지지하고 있습니다.
* 🛡 라트비아 정부는 우크라이나에 무조건적인 군사 지원을 제공해야 한다고 주장하며, **우크라이나에 무기를 지원하면 러시아로부터의 확전이 아니라 확전을 완화**할 수 있다고 주장합니다.
* 🤝 또한 **데이터 센터를 포함한 인프라 투자 유치**에 주력하고 있으며, 자금 조달을 위해 **피칭하는 스타트업의 관심**이 높습니다.
* 📈 전반적으로 라트비아의 전략적 이니셔티브는 **기술 역량을 강화**하는 동시에 **EU 방위 논의에 적극적으로 참여**하고 **현재 진행 중인 우크라이나 분쟁을 지원**하겠다는 의지를 반영합니다.

라트비아는 규제와 보안 문제의 균형을 맞추면서 EU 내에서 인공 지능을 선도하는 것을 목표로 합니다.

You heard from my colleague in Brussels, the latest piece of EU oversight of a large American technology company. There's also sort of a personal consideration. Hanover can and will become an important leader in Europe when it comes to tech. What is Latvia's attitude to the policy side but also the new people at the top? Well, actually, we have heard the proposal from the president of the European Commission about the new commissioners. I do believe that this is quite a balanced proposal. But let's not forget that the European Parliament still needs to approve each and every commissioner. There's going to be a grilling. But I do hope that the new commission is going to be very much focused on the competitiveness of the European Union. I think defence and security is going to play a huge role also when it comes to the new budget. And then indeed we have a new issue, as you already mentioned, about a couple of my meetings. Also, we have those well, those meetings

Mr. President met open. Those are today. I'm just starting from this morning meeting with all those. What's your ambition for those meetings, Mr. President? There are actually two big issues. One, Latvia is striving to become one of the, I would say, pioneers and leaders of artificial intelligence in the European Union. We are now creating our National Artificial Intelligence Center. That is a private-public partnership. Actually, the idea started from security concerns, but now we have expanded it not only to include security like deep fakes, like interference in the elections, but also in order to create a competitive environment and to take, let's say, lead in this manner. And one thing that I am going to discuss and look at is the way how we can cooperate. We already have very good cooperation with Google for this matter, and we very much hope to expand it. So that's one second. Indeed, I do believe that it is very important that we discuss how we are

going to address artificial intelligence, social media, you know, all those discussions, whether we should view them as challenges or opportunities. I'm still trying to find a way how to find a middle ground and being the part of the European Union, of course, to influence also the discussion. President, is more regulation necessary when it comes to AI and social media? Well, this is a very tough question. I do believe that if we look at some challenges, we have seen the use of social media, artificial intelligence for disinformation, deepfakes, interference in elections. I think we need some framework. But at the same time, and this is sometimes a challenge for the European Union and about the European Union, let's face it, we sometimes in Europe get overly regulatory. Sometimes we believe that here in the United States there is too much liberal approach. So from that point of view, I would say that the balance to some regulation,

especially when it comes to serious issues, the crime of political interference. Yes, we do need rules, but let's not overreact also here. Let's talk about serious issues at the moment that the EU and your country in particular faces when it comes to Russia and armed Russia. And we understand a drone recently crashed in Latvia. How should NATO respond to this sort of technology, to drones? Should they shoot them down? What is your view? Well, actually, this is a really very good question because also as part of my visit, I've been in Nice. We were talking about the cooperation in our ethics in the drone industry. My country also leads a strong coalition that is supportive of Ukraine. But when we talk about defense, I do believe that we currently lack a common approach in NATO's. We're having already three countries, my country, Latvia, Romania, Poland, where we have seen drones crashed.

Investigation is still ongoing, but that is a great reason to suspect that that Shaheed drone was actually blowing flying from from Ukraine, bypassing Belarus and simply crushed. My believe is, yes, we need to shoot down those drones. We need to give more air defense equipment to Ukraine. But also back in Natal we are talking about the need to increase also natal presence when it comes to any difference in so-called eastern flank. So yes, Natal must adapt to the new reality and we must shoot down drones. We must protect the territory of the alliance. Mr. President, Latvia has has a role here because of its location, its geographic proximity to what is happening. A big question asked of leaders across the European Union is what to do next and whether from a technology and weapons standpoint there is an argument to approve the use of sort of longer range technology to go into Russia in support of Ukraine doing such an action. What is your policy on that? Well, I think it would be very

surprising if I would be saying that we have to be cautious now. The longstanding real Latvian government, my personal view is that when it comes to Ukraine, when it comes to support for Ukraine, we must allow using all weapons, all weapons systems that we provide to Ukraine unconditionally. I don't believe in that. Talk about escalation. Yes, we hear a voice from Moscow. But if you look back at the beginning of the invasion in February 2022, they have heard that kind of messages from Moscow and actually about this happening when Russia escalates, Ukraine is not able to respond. But when Ukraine gets weapons and is able to respond, actually Russia is not escalating, it actually de-escalate. So my own firm believe is that we must change the narrative from we must help Ukraine deal or whatever it takes or how long it takes to we must help Ukraine to it's there no diplomatic breakthrough to the deadlock. We've got much of that being discussed.

in a presidential election race here in the United States. I think that there is already some political process. We had the peace summit in Switzerland in June. President Zelensky is talking about another peace summit, maybe somewhere in November, maybe after the US elections. But I do believe that a diplomatic breakthrough or political process can start only when Russia sees that it cannot move forward, that we are supporting Ukraine, and that it needs to sit at the table. It's not for the Ukrainians currently to call the first shot. It's actually for Russia. But I also think that there is not going to be any political process until U.S. elections. Most probably, we can talk about some kind of political process or some kind of diplomatic efforts next year. But here, I think that we also should not make a mistake if we start, let's say, putting some kind of limitations on Ukraine; then we are not going to see Russia willing to sit at the table.

Just the opposite. Mr. President, we have less than a minute. You'll meet with Apollo. You'll meet with open air. I'm curious if you want to attract investment infrastructure like datacentre talent in your country. Absolutely. That's one of the things that they are going to talk about attracting investment. Yesterday, I had the event where some of our startups were pitching for investment. I think they were doing great. There was growth and interest and yes, I will be doing my best, but also to attract the talent investment to get partnership was open and I had other companies.

NATO should be allowed to shoot down stray Russian drones, says Latvia's president

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EU 기술 리더십에서 라트비아의 야심찬 역할

라트비아는 민관 파트너십을 통해 국립 인공지능 센터를 설립하여 유럽연합 내 인공지능 분야의 리더가 되는 것을 목표로 하고 있습니다.

라트비아의 인공지능에 대한 관심은 보안 문제에서 경쟁 환경 조성으로 확대되었습니다.

라트비아는 AI 이니셔티브를 강화하기 위해 Google과 같은 거대 기술 기업과의 협력을 적극적으로 모색하고 있습니다.

AI와 소셜 미디어의 규제와 기회 균형 맞추기

연사는 AI와 소셜 미디어의 도전과 기회를 탐구하며 허위 정보 및 정치적 간섭과 같은 문제를 해결하기 위한 규제 프레임워크의 필요성을 강조합니다.

또한 유럽연합의 지나친 규제 경향을 인정하면서도 심각한 사안에 대해서는 규칙의 필요성을 인정합니다.

연사는 드론 사고로 인해 나토 국가들이 직면한 공통의 문제를 강조하고 이러한 위협에 대응하기 위한 통합된 접근 방식을 옹호합니다.

우크라이나 지원에 대한 라트비아의 입장

라트비아는 샤히드 드론이 우크라이나에서 날아온 것으로 의심하고 있으며, 방공망 강화와 동쪽 측면에 나토의 강력한 주둔 필요성을 강조하고 있습니다.

라트비아 정부는 제공된 모든 무기 시스템의 사용을 포함하여 우크라이나에 대한 무조건적인 지원을 옹호하고 있습니다.

단순히 우크라이나를 돕는 것에서 벗어나 분쟁의 교착 상태를 타개하기 위한 보다 적극적인 접근 방식으로 전환해야 합니다.

우크라이나에 대한 외교적 노력과 투자

젤렌스키 대통령은 또 다른 평화 정상회담을 계획하고 있지만, 러시아가 협상에 대한 압박을 느낄 때만 외교적 돌파구가 마련될 수 있습니다.

미국 대선으로 인해 내년까지 정치적 과정이 지연될 가능성이 높습니다.

또한, 스타트업들이 적극적으로 투자를 유치하고 파트너십을 모색하는 등 우크라이나에 투자와 인재를 유치하는 것이 최우선 과제입니다.