NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Greece is working with Israel on growing synthetic intelligence expertise that might assist in early detection of harmful wildfires, the Greek prime minister mentioned Monday.
After talks together with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides within the Cypriot capital of Nicosia, Kyriakos Mitsotakis additionally mentioned that Israel could possibly be introduced into the European Union fold in terms of civil safety initiatives to higher coordinate firefighting efforts.
Israel and Cyprus are amongst a number of international locations which have dispatched firefighting plane and crews to assist battle wildfires in Greece that consumed huge tracts of forest during the last two months, together with the EU’s largest such blaze on document that claimed the lives of 20 folks.
Mitsotakis mentioned Greece may act as a proving floor for Israeli AI expertise in early detection of wildfires.
“We’re already speaking to Israel about AI-based options that may supply us early detection capabilities,” Stated Mitsotakis.
Netanyahu mentioned the three leaders mentioned “going effectively past” dispatching firefighting plane and crews by deploying AI programs for early detection.
“That is actually a type of areas the place after we say we’ll do it higher collectively, there’s no query that that’s the case,” Netanyahu mentioned.
The three leaders mentioned they delved into how you can harness current pure gasoline discoveries in Israeli and Cypriot waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Netanyahu mentioned choices on how Israel and Cyprus will export pure gasoline to overseas markets should be made inside the subsequent three to 6 months.
Israel and Cyprus are trying into plans for a pipeline that might convey offshore pure gasoline from each international locations to the east Mediterranean island nation the place it will be liquefied for export by ship.
“We agreed that pure gasoline and renewable power is a first-rate pillar of cooperation within the area, particularly in mild of the current geopolitical developments and power insecurity, particularly in Europe, dictating the necessity for power diversification and enhance interconnectivity,” Christodoulides mentioned.
One other undertaking the three leaders expressed eager curiosity on is an undersea electrical energy cable stretching 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) that might hyperlink the ability grids of Israel, Cyprus and mainland Greece.
“That’s one thing that we’re eagerly curious about pursuing and we mentioned … (together with) the mechanism of how you can advance this,” mentioned Netanyahu.
Power has been the main target of a collection of ongoing conferences between the three leaders to deepen their international locations’ ties since 2016, which Mitsotakis mentioned mirrored their significance on the political, financial and different ranges.