ANT1 profiles BINA: AI as a tool for every citizen
Cyprus broadcaster ANT1 News featured BINA founder Asher Knippel on making AI understandable and accessible to ordinary people. Watch the segment with English subtitles.
By BINA Editorial
The Cypriot broadcaster ANT1 News aired a feature on artificial intelligence — "AI as a tool for all citizens: the right use and the dangers" — and turned to Asher Knippel, founder of BINA CYINNOVATION HUB, for the view from Larnaca.
The report set the scene broadly: AI now reaches into work and education, health, public services and business, promising faster solutions and greater efficiency. But, the experts stress, the real test is using it correctly and responsibly. The starting point is one we keep returning to: the ability of ordinary citizens to work with AI tools the right way is becoming a basic challenge of public life — a question of education, of who gets to understand this technology and who gets left behind.
For Asher, the scale of the shift is the whole point.
First it was the fire, the wheel, the train, the car, the industrial revolution, the internet — and everything else. But what AI has achieved is something completely different.
His argument to ANT1 was that AI cannot stay in the hands of a few. It has to become more understandable, more accessible, and genuinely useful for the everyday citizen — not a specialist's tool, but a public one.
The most important thing now is to spread it and bring it to the majority of citizens. Everyone should know how to use it, because that will give security and knowledge — and make most of the people more advanced.
That is, in plain terms, what the hub was built to do. From its home in Larnaca, BINA runs free public talks on AI, a daily five-language newsroom, and AI-literacy sessions open to the whole community — exactly the kind of "familiarity with this new, revolutionary technology" the ANT1 report closed on.
The report closed on a note we share: familiarity with this new, revolutionary technology can help reduce the harm that comes from misusing AI — for adults and children alike.
We're grateful to ANT1 News for the coverage, and to everyone who continues to make the hub what it is. The English subtitles above were added by BINA so the conversation can travel beyond Cyprus.