EU reliance on U.S. is inevitable.
Christie Lawrence and Sean Cordy 20. *Director for Research and Analysis working on international AI cooperation and intellectual property, Harvard Belfer Center’s Cyber Project, State Department. **Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. Koichiro Komiyama. “The Case for Increased Transatlantic Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence.” August 2020. https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/case-increased-transatlantic-cooperation-artificial-intelligence
The European Union’s Juncker 26 Commission (2014-2019) actively avoided regulating AI, causing the European Parliament to increase their efforts as a proactive voice in favor of stronger AI regulation. However, since the beginning of Ursula von der Leyen’s tenure, the Commission has initiated efforts to adopt stronger regulation for AI applications (i.e., differentiating regulation of AI based on defined “high-risk” and “low-risk” sectors”) and associated data spaces.27,28 These legislative proposals and their associated discussions are planned to be completed by the end of 2020. During the strategic planning and budgeting process of its R&D programs, the EU committed to providing at least EUR10.7 billion29 for AI-related research conducted between 2021 and 2027.30 Despite these financial and political efforts, the EU still remains technologically dependent on the US and China and suffers from a lack of capital and private funding, decentralized and uncoordinated AI expertise, severe brain drain (including to the US), and slow adoption of AI programming in its education and public sectors.