A Transformative AI Strategy for Europe Calls for Urgent Action

Summary

A strategy document argues that Europe needs urgent, far-reaching action to shape the development and consequences of artificial intelligence. It warns that AI could create major opportunities but also enable cyber or biological attacks and produce risks related to losing control over advanced systems. Even if those dangers are contained and AI produces mostly positive outcomes, the document says wealth and strategic leverage could still concentrate outside Europe under the current trajectory. It argues that this outcome is not inevitable, but that the window for action is narrowing. The strategy presents a two-part plan: Part A sets strategic priorities and recommendations, while Part B provides implementation details. The document was developed with contributions from researchers, policy experts, former political leaders, and industry advisers, whose role was consultative rather than decisive on the strategy’s content.