Artificial Intelligence: Key to European Strategic Autonomy

AI is much more than smart chatbots or self-driving cars. Within the context of European strategic autonomy, AI plays a vital role in maintaining control over energy, healthcare, and securit all aligned with democratic values.

TU Delft highlights that strategic autonomy is essential to reduce dependency on hostile power blocs. AI provides practical solutions: optimizing sustainable energy networks, creating digital twins of electricity grids, and detecting cyber threats early.

These tools help make critical infrastructure more resilient and secure.

In South Holland, the AI Coalition with HSD as the national security cluster collaborates closely with TU Delft, businesses, and government bodies. This ecosystem develops ‘secure by design’ solutions for smart grids while ensuring responsible AI aligned with European norms and ethics. Labs such as the Feminist Generative AI Lab and AI DeMoS Lab integrate ethical and democratic perspectives into AI applications.

The report emphasizes that investing in AI ecosystems, talent development, and European collaboration is essential to achieving a safe, sustainable, and strategically autonomous future.

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