Premier Giorgia Meloni said on
Tuesday her dreams as a girl were to be a singer and play for
the national volleyball team, but not to become prime minister.
"None of my dreams have come true," said Meloni at an event
organised by the foreign press corps in Rome.
"I wanted to be a singer, but I'm tone deaf; to play with the
national volleyball team, but I'm a dwarf; to meet Michael
Jackson, but he died too soon," she continued, adding that her
dreams did not include "being prime minister".
Meloni said one of her "historic collaborators" repeats that "my
motto is 'we're all going to die'".
"It's true, I'm not an optimistic person, I always see the glass
half empty," she added.
"However, since I know how to imagine the worst possible
scenario, I'm also able to deal with all the others," continued
the premier.
In other points, Meloni warned of the risks for the press of
artificial intelligence (AI).
"You can talk all you want about freedom of the press, but the
problem is that you risk wiping it out altogether," she told the
foreign press corps.
"Artificial intelligence is a great opportunity if it is
governed, otherwise it can be a detonator. It risks having a
devastating impact on the highly qualified labour market in
sectors such as journalism," she added, recalling that the issue
of AI will feature strongly on the agenda of the Italian G7 duty
presidency this year.
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