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Please note that this event is in-person only and will not be live-streamed.

The European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) entered into force in August 2024, with the aim to foster responsible artificial intelligence development and deployment in the EU. Moreover, in her Political guidelines for the next European Commission, European Commission President von der Leyen proposed setting up a European AI Research Council, similar to CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research).

Stakeholders believe that, despite leading in the field of AI regulation, the EU has failed to produce a booming domestic industry. This is in part because of the lack of computational resources and funding.

They also believe that trustworthy advanced AI (AAI), which refers to lawful, ethical, and robust highly capable general-purpose models or systems built on top of such general-purpose models, is the next step and one of the emerging technologies that the EU should be paying more attention to.

The next few months are crucial for scaling up AI development in Europe and for this purpose, developing a European AI Research Council. However, President von der Leyen argues that the investment needed to compete in the market of increasingly valuable, large-scale, and general-purpose AI models is too large for any single European government or company.

Join this Euractiv Stakeholder Workshop to understand what a European AI Research Council would look like and how it could become a reality. Questions to be addressed include:
- What is Advanced AI, and how can the EU ensure it is truly trustworthy?
- How would the European AI Research Council be funded and governed, and how could its exact mission be defined?
- What are the requirements that such an institute should meet in order to be fit for purpose and deliver its ambitions?
- What would be the benefits for the public and private sector? How about the citizens?

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