Fresh from the cooker: “Redirecting Europe’s AI Industrial Policy”
We are excited to share with you today a brand-new collection of essays under the guiding motto of “Redirecting Europe’s AI Industrial Policy”, edited by AI Now Institute. This collection aims to provide EU policymakers with valuable research, perspectives, and evidence on the challenges of increasing public investment in a highly concentrated global AI market.
As Europe ponders pouring billions of public funds into AI, this collection attempts to reorient the EU’s industrial policy away from its current trajectory of further entrenching Big Tech’s dominance in the market–and outlines alternative pathways forward.
The report has been curated and compiled by Frederike Kaltheuner, Leevi Saari, Amba Kak and Sarah Myers West of the AI Now Institute, who also authored the opening chapter.
Other contributors include Europe’s foremost AI policy experts, including Francesca Bria, Dr. Cecilia Rikap, Sarah Chander, Zuzanna Warso, Cristina Caffarra, Seda Gürses, Margarida Silva, Jeroen Merk, MEP Kim van Sparrentak, Burcu Kilic, Michelle Thorne, Udbhav Tiwari, Francesco Bonfiglio, Fieke Jansen, and Mark Scott.
Francesco has been invited to contribute to this valuable edition due to his continuous involvement and front-row perspective on Europe’s efforts toward digital sovereignty.
Chapter XI features the interview conducted by Mark Scott with Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO of Dynamo, discussing the provocative statement “Why Europe’s Cloud Ambitions Have Failed.”
Francesco sheds further light on the years with Gaia-X when the association has been the center of bitter battles between its members, some of which, like Microsoft and Amazon, are US-hyperscalers. Five years into Gaia-X’s work, Europe’s collective market share of the cloud computing industry has further fallen while the political aspiration of creating EU alternatives remains unfulfilled.
In this interview, Francesco explains what was achieved, what fell short of expectations and how cloud be done differently. He outlines why he is still optimistic Europe can offer something different in the world’s cloud computing industry.
Learn why it is important for Europe to offer an alternative to local businesses and governments compared to what is already in the cloud market and what needs to happen now for European cloud companies to compete on the global stage.
We are happy to share with you the full report here:
https://ainowinstitute.org/redirecting-europes-ai-industrial-policy
To download the full interview:
https://ainowinstitute.org/publication/xi-why-europes-cloud-ambitions-have-failed