Giorgia Meloni, like everyone else on the planet, is trying to work out what to do about artificial intelligence.

In some ways, the Italian prime minister is old school. She still writes campaign speeches by hand, as the ink stains on her manicured fingers can attest ¡ª fountain pens have a tendency to explode on planes, she jokes. But she¡¯s acutely aware of her responsibilities.

She leads a country that struggles to achieve growth past 1%, and she is clear-eyed about the transformative period into which the global economy has been plunged by disruptive new technologies.