A slalom mission that of Giorgia Meloni in Ny for theUN general assembly. Courting Big Tech but warning about the risks of artificial intelligence. Embracing the Biden line on Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon but rejecting his proposal to reform the Security Council so as not to create “A and B countries” and having the Atlantic Council award given to him by the controversial Elon Musk, an open supporter of Donald Trump is a bitter enemy of Kamala Harris in the race for the White House. In her three days in New York, the prime minister pursues a difficult balancing act, with one eye on potential investments in Italy by US high tech giants and the other on the upcoming American elections. This explains the meeting on Sunday with the CEOs of Google, Motorola and Open Ai, who seem interested in investing in data centers and Italian startups, in collaborations with the excellence of our universities, in providing AI know-how to Italian companies. And the choice to receive the Global Citizen Award on Monday evening from the hands of the owner of Tesla and SpaceX, which Meloni indicated before her take to the field against the dem ticket but which now risks embarrassing her with her increasingly divisive and incendiary outings. Like the post in which, after the second attack on Trump, he wondered why no one tried to kill Biden or Harris, prompting the Secret Service to shine a spotlight on him. But with Musk, government sources underline, there is a personal relationship and mutual respect, as well as the tycoon’s possible interests in investing in the Bel Paese, from space (with Starlink) to AI. A figure who could also be useful to immediately open a privileged line with The Donald in the event of victory, but who could cool the relationship with ‘Kamalà if she were to prevail. However, the prime minister does not seem worried about the controversy and continues on her way, aiming to send some specific messages in her three speeches at the UN headquarters. The first Monday at the Future Summit, where Meloni urged us to “act” in the face of the “numerous and multifaceted challenges that history has placed before us: climate change, social and economic inequalities, humanitarian and health crises, the transnational crime, armed conflicts, starting from the unacceptable Russian war against a sovereign nation like Ukraine, which make international security increasingly precarious”.
The prime minister then reiterated that Italy “is a staunch supporter” of the UN and multilateralismwhich however must not be «a club in which to meet to write useless documents full of good intentions, but the place in which the urgency of decisions must be taken into account, the place in which ideas must become action, making synthesis between different sensitivities.” And with “fair and shared” rules. Because of this has relaunched a reform of the Security Council which cannot “disregard the principles of equality, democracy and representativeness”, avoiding “creating new hierarchies” and “series A and series B nations”: a rejection of the US proposal, which calls for two permanent seats for African countries, along with a rotating seat for small island developing nations. Meloni also cited the Mattei plan for Africa as an example of new cooperation between nations, “through an approach that is neither paternalistic nor charitable nor predatory but based on respect and the right of everyone to compete on equal terms”. And he warned that there is a risk of “catastrophic scenarios” if AI were used not for the common good but “to further divide the global balance”, recalling that “it is politics that must guarantee that artificial intelligence remains controlled by man and keep man at the centre.” The end of the mission on Tuesday with two other speeches: at the summit of the global coalition against the threat of synthetic drugs, at Biden’s invitation, and the speech to the UN general assembly in the evening (in the Italian night), before the departure which also this year it will prevent her from attending the reception of the host Biden on Wednesday and the event for Ukraine, to which however she should connect via video from Rome.