{"id":137135,"date":"2023-09-20T16:44:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137135"},"modified":"2023-09-20T16:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:44:43","slug":"president-holds-talks-with-metas-nick-clegg-on-ai-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/09\/20\/president-holds-talks-with-metas-nick-clegg-on-ai-development\/","title":{"rendered":"President holds talks with Meta\u2019s Nick Clegg on AI development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Ranil Wickremesinghe met with Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs for Meta (Facebook), in New York on the side-lines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and highlighted the government\u2019s new initiatives to combat online hate speech and the spread of fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;He emphasized that the proposed bill will allow concerned parties to challenge specific aspects through the Supreme Court and further revisions could be considered during the Parliamentary Committee review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President was briefed on Meta\u2019s advancements in Artificial Intelligence, with particular emphasis on open-source technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both parties explored potential collaborations between the Sri Lankan Government and Meta in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the proposals discussed was the development of a collaborative programme between Meta and Sri Lankan universities aimed at advancing AI technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Wickremesinghe emphasized his two primary areas of focus: fostering the growth of the AI sector in the country, especially in the realm of education and utilizing AI to support data-driven initiatives aimed at addressing climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanying the President were Senior Advisor on Climate Change, Ruwan Wijewardena,<br>President\u2019s Secretary Saman Ekanayake, BOI Chairman Dinesh Weerakody and Director of International Affairs Dinouk Colombage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe met with Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs for Meta (Facebook), in New York on the side-lines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and highlighted the government\u2019s new initiatives to combat online hate speech and the spread of fake news. &nbsp;He emphasized that the proposed bill will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}