The European Union is preparing to launch a strategy aimed at reducing dependence on foreign artificial intelligence (AI) providers and promoting European-made AI platforms. According to the draft proposal seen by the Financial Times, the Commission's new “AI Strategy” emphasizes security, resilience and industrial competitiveness by accelerating the development and adoption of its own AI technologies. The strategy is expected to be presented by EU technology chief Henna Wilkunen on Tuesday, the report said.
EU focuses on technology independence
The draft proposal warns that “external dependencies of the AI stack” (the infrastructure and software required to build, train and manage AI applications) can “weaponize” the risk that both state and non-state actors will supply the chain.The committee aims to “strengthen EU AI sovereignty” by promoting a policy that “accelerates the adoption of European scalable, replicable, generator AI solutions in administration,” according to the draft.
AI Tech's target sector
This strategy underscores the need to improve the use of AI in key sectors such as healthcare, defense and manufacturing. To implement these initiatives, the committee is mobilizing 1 billion euros from its existing funding programme.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at an event on Friday that Bullock “want to speed up the adoption of AI” through its AI application strategy to ensure Europe remains behind new technologies.BLOC plans to prioritize implementation of European AI-enabled tools in defense. Brussels is a command and control (C2) feature that “accelerates the development and deployment of European AI-enabled” – a system used to guide and manage battlefield operations. The committee also hopes to “support the development of a sovereign frontier model” for space defense technology.
