I had the opportunity to present the findings of the Asia-Europe for Artificial Intelligence (AE4AI) Network at the European Parliament—a two-year collaboration with 100+ academics from 35 countries. Many thanks to MEP Wouter Beke, Prof. Dr. Andrea Wechsler (MEP), and Kai Zenner (Head of Office to MEP Axel Voss) for the engaged discussion.

Together with Raphaël Weuts, I shared the key messages from our AI Governance Working Group:

Three core messages

  1. Agentic AI ⇒ new literacy needs
    Society lacks essential literacy in topics such as instrumental convergence and goal alignment—this must be addressed in curricula and public education.
  2. Safety know-how has economic returns
    Knowledge and practice of agentic AI safety increasingly generate measurable economic value (risk reduction, resilience, compliance readiness).
  3. AI risk is cross-border—and a growth opportunity
    AI poses global, sometimes existential, risks. The EU can lead by coupling risk governance with investment in AI education and talent pipelines.

Read the reports

I am grateful to the AE4AI team—including Zsolt Almási, Hannah Bleher, Rozanne Tuesday Flores, Paweł Pujszo, Guo Xuanyang, Raphaël Weuts, Robert Kerwin Billones, Laurien Oyen, Cleo Cachapero, and Reka Tozsa—for making this cross-continental collaboration possible.