The EU’s response to the fragmented emergence of artificial intelligence

Dini, Giovanni

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64060-5_8

The EU’s response to the fragmented emergence of artificial intelligence

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Dini G. The EU’s response to the fragmented emergence of artificial intelligence. In: Costa O, Soler i Lecha E, Vlaskamp MC, editors. EU foreign policy in a fragmenting international order. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; c2025. p. 207-31. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-64060-5_8

Abstract

The accelerating development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its growing strategic relevance in the context of international fragmentation and emerging geopolitical rivalry has thrust digital politics to the forefront of the European Union’s (EU) sovereign turn. Lacking the computational resources to shape AI development directly, the EU is attempting to wield influence through its normative power by passing the AI Act. EU actors are prevalently hedging between Atlanticist, Europeanist and nationalist approaches, reflecting the fluidity of contemporary digital politics and the growing instability and multipolarity of the international system.