Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

The AI race isn’t about who builds the best chatbot—it’s about who converts AI capabilities into real national power. Success depends on a country’s ability to ensure access to AI, foster trust, and govern the technology. While everyone sees AI’s potential, few understand the mechanics.

Featured Research

About AIxAC

AI across AC (AIxAC) is a coordinated effort of the Atlantic Council’s sixteen programs and centers. We are building the playbook for democratic AI leadership and what it can achieve—through a coherent framework built by our experts on economic policy, defense, energy, global governance, and technology. 

The White House has an AI oversight plan. But who will do the overseeing?

Report Jun 1, 2026

Atlantic Council Commission on AI lays a roadmap for US leadership in the age of AI

The flagship report of the Atlantic Council Commission on AI and US competitiveness, which presents an action-oriented roadmap for strengthening US domestic AI capacity.

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The White House has an AI oversight plan. But who will do the overseeing?

Dispatches Jun 3, 2026

Reading between the lines of Trump’s new executive order on AI

By Atlantic Council experts

Atlantic Council experts dig into the details of US President Donald Trump’s recently signed executive order on artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence Technology & Innovation
The White House has an AI oversight plan. But who will do the overseeing?

Dispatches May 19, 2026

Hackers using AI just found a ‘zero-day.’ The spyware industry is watching.

By Jen Roberts

Spyware companies that hack into devices for the purpose of surveillance and data extraction are primed to exploit this new opportunity.
Artificial Intelligence

GeoTech Commission

Geopolitical strategy in an age of artificial intelligence

The Atlantic Council draws on its preeminent technology programs and deep geopolitical expertise to orient its GeoTech Commission on enabling the United States to more effectively shape the global future defined by artificial intelligence.

India’s AI Impact Summit

Atlantic Council at India’s AI Impact Summit

As the international community confronts critical choices on AI governance, the India AI Impact Summit (Feb 19–20) brings global leaders together to drive action. Read the Atlantic Council’s analysis and explore our high-level convenings.

Featured Projects

AI Connect

An initiative that encourages the responsible stewardship of AI technologies in line with the OECD AI Principles and that empowers low and middle-income countries to more effectively participate in the global, multistakeholder conversation on AI policy.

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The Data Rules Project

As AI transforms pharmaceutical research and biotechnology, the data powering these breakthroughs has become as strategically significant as the discoveries themselves. Yet the rules governing how that data is accessed, used, and shared across borders remain fragmented, contested, and increasingly caught up in broader geopolitical rivalries. The Data Rules Project is committed to changing that.

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Featured Events

Online Event Tue, September 22, 2026 • 3:15 pm ET

Pfizer’s Albert Bourla on AI, health, and innovation in a changing world

AN AC FRONT PAGE EVENT—Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla discusses how artificial intelligence is reshaping drug discovery and healthcare and outlines the data, policy, and regulatory frameworks needed to translate technological advances into better health outcomes.
Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity
Public Event Tue, September 8, 2026 • 9:00 am ET

Data governance for AI and healthcare: From Washington to Beijing

Artificial intelligence and healthcare experts explore how the United States, China, and other major markets are navigating data governance, compute, and infrastructure challenges.
Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity
Public Event Mon, June 1, 2026 • 2:45 pm ET

How the US and allies can win the AI era

The GeoTech Center hosted an event to launch the flagship report of the Atlantic Council Commission on AI and US competitiveness, which presents an action-oriented roadmap for strengthening US domestic AI capacity.
Artificial Intelligence Technology & Innovation United States and Canada
Public Event Thu, May 21, 2026 • 1:00 pm ET

Health data and AI at scale: Policy choices for US competitiveness and security

As AI rapidly transforms healthcare and biotechnology, this panel discussion explores the critical decisions shaping health data governance, innovation, privacy, and US competitiveness.
Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity United States
Public Event Tue, January 20, 2026 • 3:00 pm ET

AI innovation and the talent gap: Competing at the pace of technical change

AI leaders and policy experts explored how nations can build the technical expertise and adaptive institutions needed to govern rapidly advancing AI systems.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy Technology & Innovation

Explore the Programs

The Atlantic Council Technology Programs comprises five existing efforts—the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), the GeoTech Center, the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, the Democracy + Tech Initiative, and the Capacity Building Initiative. These operations work together to address the geopolitical implications of technology and provide policymakers and global stakeholders necessary research, insights, and convenings to address challenges around global technology and ensure its responsible advancement.

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Content

Dispatches

Sep 16, 2026

The White House has an AI oversight plan. But who will do the overseeing?

By Lauren Kim

A third-party AI auditing market could help close federal oversight gaps and complement the new White House's new rules.

Artificial Intelligence North America

Dispatches

Sep 14, 2026

Don’t count on Trump and Xi to slow down AI. Don’t count them out either.

By Kenton Thibaut

Concerns about catastrophic risks to humanity have put artificial intelligence at the top of the agenda for the leaders’ upcoming meeting.

Artificial Intelligence China

Inflection Points

Sep 14, 2026

Trump and Xi should rethink how to run the AI race

By Frederick Kempe

The threat of frontier artificial intelligence must be at the top of the agenda for the upcoming meeting between the leaders.

Artificial Intelligence China

Dispatches

Sep 13, 2026

What the proposed AI slowdown means for the US, China, and humanity at large

By Atlantic Council experts

Atlantic Council experts assess the new commitments from the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, and others, along with the state of the tech and the risk to the human race.

Artificial Intelligence Civil Society

AfricaSource

Sep 11, 2026

The US must become Africa’s partner on technology and AI. It can do so with soft power.

By Troy Fitrell and Kathryn Fitrell

The United States’ chief adversary has a soft power strategy. Why doesn’t Washington?

Africa Artificial Intelligence

MENASource

Sep 3, 2026

Bahrain’s opportunity for AI leadership lies under water

By Minwa Alkhalifa

Bahrain could test the possibility of placing AI infrastructure, specifically data centers, under water.

Artificial Intelligence The Gulf

Dispatches

Sep 1, 2026

Russia wants to sell ‘sovereign AI’ abroad. Here’s what it’s really selling.

By Eto Buziashvili

Russia’s new AI law puts domestic models under state control. Moscow now wants to sell the same model abroad.

Artificial Intelligence Russia

Report

Aug 27, 2026

AI and autonomy in contested operations

By Owen J. Daniels

Any potential major conflict the United States engages in will be shaped by AI and autonomous systems. US forces should expect their systems to operate in denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) conditions imposed by jamming techniques, cyber-attacks, and anti-satellite capabilities designed to sever the connectivity and wreak havoc on military operations.

Artificial Intelligence Defense Policy

Dispatches

Aug 10, 2026

Smart glasses are the blind spot in US privacy law

By Trisha Ray

Artificial intelligence and other new technologies are changing what eyeware can do, but they are also raising concerns about privacy.

Artificial Intelligence Politics & Diplomacy

AfricaSource

Jul 31, 2026

In the battle of the AI stacks, model quality won’t be the most decisive factor

By Amaka Yvonne Onyemenam

The US and Chinese strategies indicate that financing, powering, and permitting infrastructure matter most, and the African evidence so far bears it out.

Africa Artificial Intelligence
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Experts

Fellow

Mohamed Elbashir

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoTech Center

Arabic Artificial Intelligence

Staff

Coley Felt

Assistant Director

GeoTech Center

Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity

Fellow

Ivan Ferrari

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoTech Center

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

Fellow

Hany Ghanem

Nonresident senior fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Americas Arabic

Staff

Moss Gillespie

Program Assistant

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Artificial Intelligence Defense Policy

Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Hugh Harsono

Emerging Technology Consultant

Millennium Leadership Program

Artificial Intelligence Digital Currencies
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Events

Online Event Tue, September 22, 2026 • 3:15 pm ET

Pfizer’s Albert Bourla on AI, health, and innovation in a changing world

AN AC FRONT PAGE EVENT—Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla discusses how artificial intelligence is reshaping drug discovery and healthcare and outlines the data, policy, and regulatory frameworks needed to translate technological advances into better health outcomes.
Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity