Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a conference call last night from Florida with US billionaire Elon Musk, Transportation Minister Miri Regev and National AI Directorate head Erez Askal, his office says ahead of Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Musk says he will attend a Smart Transportation Conference in Israel in March.
The participants also discussed “continued cooperation with Tesla and the advancement of legislation concerning autonomous vehicles,” says the PMO.
Netanyahu and Musk, who in September 2023 held a long panel debate over the ethics of artificial intelligence at the Tesla factory in California, spoke on the call about “promoting and developing artificial intelligence technologies in Israel,” according to the statement.
“We intend to propel Israel forward and turn it into a global leader in the field, just as we did in cyber and other technologies,” Netanyahu tells him.
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