A Transformative AI Strategy for Europe
A Transformative AI Strategy
for Europe
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This strategy is a project of individual experts who contributed in a personal capacity; institutional affiliations are given for identification purposes only. For questions related to this publication, please contact the KIRA Center.
Zentrum für KI-Risiken & -Auswirkungen gUG (haftungsbeschränkt) (KIRA Center)
Prenzlauer Allee 186, 10405 Berlin, Germany
Registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg (Berlin)
HRB 251628 B
Managing Director (Geschäftsführer): Daniel Privitera
Responsible under German press law (V.i.S.d.P.): Daniel Privitera, address as above.
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Cover image: Salton Sea, © Eric Cahan. Used under licence. The image is not covered by the Creative Commons licence above and may not be reproduced without the artist's permission.
How to cite
Schnitzer, M., Privitera, D., Bucknall, B., Dreksler, N., Fox, P., Leicht, A., McGlynn, C., Rignell, M., Stehr, F., Aghion, P., Winter, C., Bakker, M., Ischinger, W., Vestager, M., Mądry, A., Fuest, C., Kwiatkowska, M., Varadkar, L., Osika, A., Acemoglu, D., Bengio, Y., Angeli, M., Blom, O. E., Doan, R., Martens, B., Mökander, J., van Putten, J.-W., Arcesati, R., Benner, T., Burga, T., Dhaliwal, J., Freund, J., Garicano, P., Gillett, E., Goutbeek, J., Greenblatt, R., Growiec, J., Hacker, P., Heintz, F., Hobbhahn, M., Juijn, D., Levie, A., Mindermann, S., Moës, N., Praas, R., Prins, J., Radu, R., Riekeles, G., Schaal, J., Schenk, T., Sevilla, J., Shamir, A., Sheikh, H., Teutloff, O., Touzet, C., Uszkoreit, H., Uuk, R., Velliet, M., von der Wippel, P., Welling, M., Willemyns, J. (2026): A Transformative AI Strategy for Europe. transformative-ai.eu.
How to cite
Schnitzer, M., Privitera, D., Bucknall, B., Dreksler, N., Fox, P., Leicht, A., McGlynn, C., Rignell, M., Stehr, F., Aghion, P., Winter, C., Bakker, M., Ischinger, W., Vestager, M., Mądry, A., Fuest, C., Kwiatkowska, M., Varadkar, L., Osika, A., Acemoglu, D., Bengio, Y., Angeli, M., Blom, O. E., Doan, R., Martens, B., Mökander, J., van Putten, J.-W., Arcesati, R., Benner, T., Burga, T., Dhaliwal, J., Freund, J., Garicano, P., Gillett, E., Goutbeek, J., Greenblatt, R., Growiec, J., Hacker, P., Heintz, F., Hobbhahn, M., Juijn, D., Levie, A., Mindermann, S., Moës, N., Praas, R., Prins, J., Radu, R., Riekeles, G., Schaal, J., Schenk, T., Sevilla, J., Shamir, A., Sheikh, H., Teutloff, O., Touzet, C., Uszkoreit, H., Uuk, R., Velliet, M., von der Wippel, P., Welling, M., Willemyns, J. (2026): A Transformative AI Strategy for Europe. transformative-ai.eu.
Credits
Design: Paul Jochum, David Reitenbach
Credits
Design: Paul Jochum, David Reitenbach
Published in
September 2026
Published in
September 2026
Published in
September 2026