We are proud that our Managing Partner, Nicolas Kanellopoulos — in his capacity as President of the EPLO European Public Law Organization Institute for Justice and Growth and Executive Director of the Institute for Privacy Law, Data Protection and Technology — co-organized and coordinated the 4th “Quo Vadis AI?” Conference, alongside Professor Lilian Mitrou.
Nicolas Kanellopoulos also coordinated the closing panel — “Constitutional Review and AI: Institutional Framework for the Future” — which proved to be one of the most intellectually stimulating discussions ever held in Greece on the intersection of artificial intelligence and constitutional law.
Just two days after 155 Members of Parliament submitted the government’s proposal to revise Article 5 of the Constitution — providing that AI must serve individual freedom and societal prosperity — the Conference brought together four leading voices to publicly discuss the proposal and the relevant issues for the first time:
🏛️ Evangelos Venizelos, former Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs, former President of PASOK, Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
🏛️ Evripidis Stylianidis, MP, rapporteur of the government majority for the constitutional revision, Professor of Law, European University Cyprus
🏛️ Spyros Vlachopoulos, Professor of Public Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
🏛️ Nikolaos Sekkeroglou, Associate Councillor & Spokesperson, Council of State
The discussion evolved into a substantive public dialogue revealing both convergences and different approaches among the panelists.
This session marked a milestone: for the first time in Greece, leading constitutional scholars, the rapporteur of the revision and a representative of the supreme court debated the government’s AI-related constitutional proposal — at a moment when Greece is simultaneously preparing its first national AI law (approved by Cabinet, expected to be voted within June), the EU AI Regulation enters its operational phase, and the constitutional revision explicitly addresses algorithmic governance.
🎥 Full recording: https://lnkd.in/dK79BkDv