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Alicante AI Forum Closes With Concrete Results and Calls for Guardrails

Security lapses plus governance gaps underline the need for safeguards so gains translate into broad public benefit.

Overview

  • At Alicante’s IV European AI Forum, local pilots reported measurable gains, including a 20% cut in absenteeism and up to 15% less food waste from Mindden–Third Wish deployments.
  • City leaders urged ethical codes and a digital welfare approach to protect rights, with concerns sharpened by reports of decentralized, unsupervised AI use inside companies that lack oversight.
  • Researchers highlighted real privacy exposure, citing the EchoLeak technique that used indirect prompt injection to exfiltrate data through Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  • The Royal Spanish Academy detailed nearly €5 million invested to expand its LEIA platform and said the language tools will be available online to the public soon.
  • Nvidia chief Jensen Huang said China will win the AI race due to cheaper energy and looser rules, comments delivered as U.S. export controls tighten on advanced chips.