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What compute on European soil might buy Europe and what it depends on
Across Europe, there is growing appetite for locating large compute capacity at home. This post maps what the benefits’ proponents claim such a buildout might bring and the key open questions these claims stand or fall on.
August 19 2026
Buyer Beware: What AI-Enabled Weapons in Africa Reveal About Verification
AI rules cannot reliably protect people when compliance cannot be checked. In a new CIGI policy brief co-authored by George Gor (TFS) and Kofi Yeboah (Mozilla), AI-enabled weapons in Africa serve as a case study of how procurement and regional verification can test supplier claims, reduce risks to civilians and military personnel and impose consequences when safeguards fail.
August 10 2026
The Case for Cross-Border AI Incident Infrastructure
AI incidents are scaling fast, and coordinated global governance is lagging behind. This report proposes addressing this challenge through the development of internationally-distributed incident management infrastructure. Our recommendations aim to enable governments, multilateral bodies, and frontier AI companies to jointly detect, prepare for, and respond to AI incidents across jurisdictions.
May 14 2026
Determining the State of the Art in General-Purpose AI Risk Management: From Code to Practice
The EU’s AI Act and Code of Practice requires providers of the most advanced AI models to meet the ‘state of the art’ (SOTA) in safety and security. In a new policy memo, we argue that SOTA is best understood as a process-driven concept, advanced by the broader expert ecosystem.
May 12 2026
EU AI Act meets AI Agents
Highlights from Tech Policy Press article “The EU AI Act is Not Ready for Agents,” examining how the EU AI Act applies to AI agents and governance challenges.
May 7 2026
May 7 2026
Future-Proofing EU AI Gigafactories: Four Design Imperatives
The EU’s AI Gigafactory initiative is its largest planned compute investment to date. Our new memo identifies four imperatives that the initiative must address to deliver on Europe’s frontier AI ambitions.
May 6 2026
EU Frontier AI Sovereignty: Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts
Our report “Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Building True EU Frontier AI Sovereignty” is the first comprehensive framework mapping Europe’s frontier AI dependencies across the five pillars of sovereignty.
April 17 2026
Europe’s AI Strategy: Mapping the EU’s Emerging AI Policy Portfolio
The European Commission has launched 96 AI initiatives to strengthen European AI sovereignty. This analysis maps Europe’s AI strategy and recommends improving budget transparency and strengthening cross-communication.
March 24 2026
Where Do We Draw the Line? Inside the IASEAI Expert Workshop on AI Red Lines
Our expert workshop at IASEAI in February 2026 explored how to get to enforceable AI red lines. Three things are required: agreement on thresholds, verification infrastructure, and diplomatic coalition-building. Progress on all three is within reach.
March 19 2026
An Opportunity for Canada to Lead in AI Emergency Preparedness
Canada’s emergency management system has kept pace with new threats before by building frameworks before the worst-case scenarios arrived. Agentic AI is the next frontier, and in this article The Future Society recommends that the federal consultation on emergency preparedness is the right moment to address it.
March 13 2026
Key Takeaways from the India AI Impact Summit
The Future Society was honored to participate in the India AI Impact Summit and side events in New Delhi. Read a summary of our key events, and our takeaways from the week’s sessions.
March 11 2026
Is ChatGPT a Search Engine and a Platform under the EU Digital Services Act?
This blog summarizes our argument that ChatGPT is a hybrid of “very large online search engine” and “very large online platform” and should therefore be subject to the most onerous obligations under the Digital Services Act.
February 19 2026
Defining and Governing Unacceptable AI Risks
At The Seventh Edition of Athens Roundtable in London in December 2025, a closed-door dialogue convened 76 experts to discuss operational AI red lines. Participants identified major risk clusters and emphasized enforceable technical thresholds, verification mechanisms, and multilateral standards grounded in existing international law to prevent severe harms from powerful AI.
February 12 2026
February 12 2026
Serious AI Incident Prevention and Preparedness
At the Seventh Edition of The Athens Roundtable, experts explored how governments, industry, and civil society can prevent, monitor, report, prepare for and respond to AI incidents. With 2025 seeing record incidents, participants emphasized standardized reporting, secure data sharing, robust monitoring, and proactive governance to prevent crises and strengthen global AI safety.
February 12 2026
February 12 2026
“Facing the Stakes of AI Together”: 2025 Athens Roundtable Report
Read the highlights from the Seventh Edition of The Athens Roundtable on AI and the Rule of Law, an event organized by The Future Society and held on December 4, 2025 in London, UK.
February 5 2026
