The EU must promote homegrown artificial intelligence platforms and decrease its reliance on foreign providers, Brussels has said, as it prepares to set out a new plan to compete against the US and China in the global race for the revolutionary technology.
According to a draft proposal seen by the Financial Times, the European Commission’s new “Apply AI strategy” will promote European-made AI tools to provide security and resilience while boosting the bloc’s industrial competitiveness. The strategy highlights the need to improve AI usage in sectors including healthcare, defence and manufacturing.
The Commission aims to “strengthen EU AI sovereignty” by accelerating the development and use of homemade artificial intelligence technologies, including policies to “accelerate the adoption of European scalable and replicable generative AI solutions in public administrations”, the draft says.