{"id":11309,"date":"2026-06-17T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11309"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:59:00","slug":"von-der-leyen-europe-and-the-u-s-join-forces-to-lead-the-way-in-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11309","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen: Europe and the U.S. Join Forces to Lead the Way in Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The message that the West must lead the <b>technological <\/b>race against global competition was delivered from the podium of the <b>G7 summit<\/b> by <b>Ursula von der Leyen.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The President of the European Commission,\u00a0<strong>Ursula von der Leyen,<\/strong> emphasized during the <strong>G7<\/strong> summit that\u00a0\u201c<b>Europe <\/b>and the <b>United States<\/b> must become strong partners in the field of <b>Artificial Intelligence<\/b> (AI),\u201d emphasizing that their cooperation is critical to the security and economic sovereignty of the Western world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, we account for 70% of the global market and share common security interests,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the European Commission <b>set out three priorities for strengthening EU-U.S. cooperation<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Deeper cooperation in critical sectors, so that both sides can lead the adoption of AI in healthcare and industry, with the best laboratories working together.<\/p>\n<p>2. Preparing for a new era, as he noted, \u201cthe world must be ready for an era where machines will be better at almost everything,\u201d emphasizing the need to protect against malicious designers and to ensure that our technology powers robots and drones.<\/p>\n<p>3. Legal frameworks and voluntary controls, given that the U.S. has tasked the Secretary of Commerce with leading voluntary controls on new AI models, while the EU has similar goals and legal safeguards. \u201cWe need our citizens and companies to be able to safely use the best AI models,\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n<h3>Technological Sovereignty and AI Gigafactories<\/h3>\n<p>Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU plans to create AI Gigafactories, as part of public infrastructure for training AI models, in order to keep innovative startups within the EU.\u00a0\u201cWe are not seeking isolation, but we want to collaborate with trusted partners while simultaneously developing our own capabilities,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>This strategy will cover not only AI, but also semiconductor manufacturing, cloud services, and other strategic digital technologies.<\/p>\n<h3>Global Leadership and Security<\/h3>\n<p>Ms. von der Leyen compared the challenges of the TN to those of aviation, saying\u00a0\u201cWe test airplanes before we fly them. The U.S. and the EU are global leaders in aviation security, and we can lead the way in the digital age as well.\u201d<i>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i>She also he emphasized the need to protect citizens and companies from malicious acts, stating, \u201cWe are ready to deepen our cooperation in the TN and to invest together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the G7 summit, Ursula sent the message that the West must lead the technological race against global competition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}