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.

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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.

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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.

A Transformative AI
Strategy for Europe

Published in
September 2026

A Transformative AI
Strategy for Europe

Published in
September 2026

A Transformative AI
Strategy for Europe

Published in
September 2026