Summary: Overview of Strengthening Artificial Intelligence Collaboration Across the Atlantic
The AI landscape is evolving rapidly, and the shortage of AI skills is affecting industries globally. However, this challenge presents an opportunity for cooperation, as demonstrated by the growing share of Canadian companies in the AI field, increasing by 30 percent year over year.
This cooperation is not limited to North America. The relationship between the United States and the EU, while strained in some areas, particularly economic relations, is being reconsidered. On July 3, a conversation was hosted to discuss AI collaboration between Canada, the EU, and the United States.
For this collaboration to be efficient, the EU should establish a clearer direction for AI. This direction must consider the industry's ability to translate ethical considerations into practice. The EU, the United States, and Canada can also cooperate with China on AI, with global standards for applications, developed by researchers in Europe, Canada, and the United States, holding authority when working with Chinese companies.
Canada believes that further progress on AI can only be achieved with a strong, principle-based, multi-stakeholder governance framework over AI and a trusting relationship with businesses. In line with this belief, Canada is actively promoting its AI ecosystem on the international stage and offers expedited visa and working permit processes for highly skilled AI workers.
The fragmentation of investment and spending on AI across the EU is an issue, with the UK, France, and Germany in the lead, far ahead of all other member states. However, common values and approaches on both sides of the Atlantic, including Canada, remain. These values include democracies that share a fundamental belief in civil liberties and rights.
Businesses can play a critical role in facilitating cooperation on AI at the transatlantic level. The EU and the United States have a continuous, shared economic interest, with the EU and the United States having the world's largest and most integrated bilateral trade and investment relationship.
The EU and the United States are developing strategies for AI that look at ethical and socio-economic elements such as education, job security, and the prevention of discriminatory practices. The EU is struggling to develop commercially relevant AI applications, and there is a disconnect between the amount of AI talent in the EU and AI funding.
Existing transatlantic research ties are powerful and stable over time, with the United States being the first scientific partner of the European Framework program, and of any EU member state. The EU and the United States may need to overcome difficulties in their relationship to deepen cooperation on digital policy.
However, there is a common interest between both sides of the Atlantic to address the prospect of a rising China dominating the AI field, potentially putting the United States, Canada, and the EU at a disadvantage across key sectors of their economy. To counter this, Canada and the EU can collaborate to promote the establishment of an international panel on AI (IPAI) that could act as a global reference point on the ethical use of AI, ultimately leading to the adoption of global norms.
In conclusion, the AI race is not a zero-sum game, and greater transatlantic cooperation could help push back some of China's nationalist tendencies. By working together, the United States, EU, and Canada can foster a responsible and ethical AI landscape, safeguard their technological independence and security, and drive progress in the AI sector.
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