Hellenic Land Cadastre to be first state service to use AI tools

The Hellenic Land Cadastre, which on Thursday is to launch the use of Artificial Intelligence applications on a pilot basis until September, will become the first Greek state service to use AI, Deputy Digital Governance Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis said in television interview on SKAI television on Wednesday.

He explained that the open AI application will help to “read in natural language the text of a contract and check in advance the rules that a supervisor would until now need to read for a long time to find.” In this way, he said, the AI tool will help to immediately locate in the text of a contract what must be implemented as a rule and thus greatly reduce the time needed to complete a case.

In the meantime, Kyranakis said, the archives of deeds offices were being digitised and lawyers investigating deeds on behalf of their clients in Athens, Thessaloniki, Piraeus and another 30 deeds offices can henceforth conduct their search from their office on their computer, via archive.ktimatologio.gr.

He noted that more than 50 million pages have been digitised and that for some months now, 90% of the traffic relating to acts submitted in Athens and Thessaloniki is conducted digitally. This would save Greek tax payers both time but also protect them from possible bribes and blackmail, the deputy minister said, while urging members of the public not to hesitate to report such actions, even anonymously if they wish.

“It is time the various corrupted individuals are rooted out of the Greek public sector. It is time to bring much greater transparency to the Greek state sector and not be afraid of anything,” he said.