The Race to Develop AI for Geopolitical Purposes All significant global powers have realized that a race is underway to develop artificial intelligence for political purposes. American companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are developing computer models to help the U.S. maintain its status as the world’s most powerful country and to preser
Acknowledgments: This publication owes a great deal to the outstanding work of ECFR’s Unlock team, in particular Pawel Zerka, who did an extraordinary job of analysing the data and helping refine the authors’ arguments. Jeremy Cliffe was a brilliant editor of various drafts and greatly improved the narrative flow of the text. Andreas Bock led s
Europe’s remilitarisation is not just a cultural and logistical challenge but also, at its most elemental, a budgetary one. Here the polling picture is mixed. At a time when government budgets are under strain, the significant public appetite to increase national defence spending—even at the expense of fiscal taboos—is all the more noteworthy
As such, EU-US relations are now increasingly ideological. The relationship between far-right European parties and Trump could even come to resemble that between the old European communist parties and the Soviet Union, whereby they feel obliged to defend Trump and to imitate him. Witness, to cite one early example, Fidesz’s Viktor Orban and Austr
in the immediate aftermath of the US presidential vote most Poles were optimistic about the returning Trump’s significance for American citizens and their own country, and Estonians on balance thought his looming presidency positive for his own country and the world. No longer. Europeans now are not just pessimistic about Trump, but also critical