Technology changes society, people and the way in which they relate and in which diplomacy is done, Adrian Victor Vevera, the general director of the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI), told a specialist conference on Tuesday, write Agerpres.

„We realise that the topic [of the conference], as we considered, is an interesting topic that raises topics for discussion. Any topic will generate questions, and any question will also generate answers or in any case will make us try to find the answers to connect what cyberspace means to diplomacy. We live in interesting times. Technology changes society, changes people, and automatically changes the way we relate and the way diplomacy is done. Through cyberspace diplomacy we want to reach that point where the need to understand the impact of technology and the need to understand how new technologies can be used should intersect with the area of diplomacy, of interaction at the level of people, entities, states,” said Vevera.

He added that it is important to know how new technologies affect us, but also what impact they can have on economic, social and political activities.

„We cannot but notice the impact that artificial intelligence – the new Chat and not only GPT – has… Distributed computing technologies – from which the blockchain and its derivatives result – have an increasingly strong impact from economic to social and political activities. Consequently, we should know how this technology affects us and especially how we can use technology to make our lives more beautiful, to make our interactions richer, stronger and less affected by fake news, deep fake news, malware, rasomware, etc.,” said Vevera.

The Cyber Diplomacy Centre with ICI Bucharest held on Tuesday at Parliament Palace in Bucharest the second edition of the International Conference on Cyber Diplomacy.