This three-part series is published in partnership with the AI Now Institute.
Frederike Kaltheuner advises governments, funders, and institutions on AI industrial policy, sovereignty, and competition. She is also an advisor at the AI Now Institute. Previously, she was the founding Director of the European AI and Society Fund, Special Adviser to the Vice-President of the European Commission, and the founding Director of the Technology and Rights Division at Human Rights Watch.
Leevi Saari is a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam and an EU Policy Fellow at AI Now Institute, researching the political economy of AI governance
This weekend, the United States administration ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to two of its advanced AI models. In Europe, the news has been interpreted almost unanimously: a wake-up call that shows dependency means access can be cut off overnight.
In this series, we make the case that Europe’s AI market is deeply entangled with the ecosystems of dominant US players, in ways that boosting both supply and demand alone cannot disentangle. As a result, interventions that seek to secure sovereignty in AI risk leading to much more entrenched dependence. The first part of this series looks at the demand-side of things.
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