24 Mar 2020 The EP intergroup on AI and Digital
An essential step for EU’s Digital Industry Policy
Eurosmart welcomes the creation of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital. This initiative demonstrates the importance of enhancing the EU capabilities in emerging digital domains. Eurosmart is fully supportive of this MEPs’ endeavour, which aims at providing citizens with advanced secure technologies and positioning Europe at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
AI is a key enabling technology, we should promote solutions that aim at providing citizens with advanced secure technologies and positioning Europe at the forefront of artificial intelligence technologies.
AI will challenge many current technologies;
the Digital Security industry is ready to contribute actively to provide secure
and trustworthy solutions. It is a matter of security, privacy and collective
autonomy for Europe. AI has been identified as one of the EU Key Enabling
Technologies by the European Commission. It is expected to increase
capabilities in many ICT domains (automotive, energy, digital identity, cross
border management…). Eurosmart considers that AI is definitively not a
stand-alone technology and strongly encourages the European Union to take
actions to leverage AI-related domains. An EU-wide answer is urgently needed to
foster the “European Digital Sovereignty” as presented by President Ursula von
der Leyen[1].
[1] Mission letter of 7 November 2019 to Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market
