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. 

When AI agents become economic actors, what happens to money and the financial system?

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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When AI agents become economic actors, what happens to money and the financial system?

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
When AI agents become economic actors, what happens to money and the financial system?

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

GeoTech Cues

Oct 14, 2026

When AI agents become economic actors, what happens to money and the financial system?

By Ivan Ferrari

If AI agents come to rely on US transaction infrastructure and dollar-denominated assets, the dollar will become embedded in the operating system of machine commerce.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy

GeoTech Cues

Oct 13, 2026

Why is electrification no longer “woke”?

By Mahmoud Abouelnaga

Once a culture-war issue, electrification is now an AI- and Iran war-era necessity.

Artificial Intelligence Energy & Environment

Dispatches

Oct 2, 2026

It’s not just misuse: AI-enabled biological research also runs the risk of accidents

By Isobel Sowells and John “J.T.” O’Brien

Accidental releases are already a serious vulnerability at a time when AI is accelerating biological research.

Artificial Intelligence Technology & Innovation

Dispatches

Oct 2, 2026

What could make AI self-regulation work?

By Trisha Ray

For the new AI accord to work, industry self-regulation will need to be buttressed by binding enforcement or federal oversight.

Artificial Intelligence United States

Inflection Points

Sep 30, 2026

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on AI and the future of medicine

By Frederick Kempe

Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla joined Frederick Kempe to discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming the healthcare industry.

Artificial Intelligence Economy & Business

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Sep 28, 2026

Technology and the Global South: A US strategy for competitiveness

By Conrad Tucker, Peter Engelke

The United States and China are engaged in a strategic competition for scientific and technological leadership. To prevail, the United States must strengthen its tech-centric engagement with countries across the Global South.

Africa Artificial Intelligence

Fast Thinking

Sep 25, 2026

What did (and didn’t) happen at the Trump-Xi summit

By Atlantic Council

What the latest Trump-Xi summit changed, left unresolved, and what to watch before they meet again.

Artificial Intelligence China

Report

Sep 23, 2026

Building a multilateral cognitive warfare defense network: A collaborative framework for the United States, Japan, and Taiwan

By Yu-Hao “Vinson” Shen

Beijing is pressuring Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines not only with ships and aircraft but also in the cognitive domain—which no multilateral mechanism defends. This report explores what it would take to build a coordinated multilateral defense network to combat this threat across the first island chain.

Artificial Intelligence China

Report

Sep 22, 2026

AI data under the microscope: Accelerating and securing the AI data supply chain for the health and biopharmaceutical sectors 

By Justin Sherman

This report examines how health and biopharmaceutical companies interact with the data components of the AI supply chain, and how a fractured global regulatory landscape shapes their ability to innovate responsibly.

Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity

GeoTech Cues

Sep 21, 2026

AI is sprinting past human control. Can testing and evaluation catch up? 

By Evi Fuelle, Ryan Pan

Frontier AI is exposing the limits of today's testing systems. The United States needs a national AI assurance ecosystem.

Artificial Intelligence Digital Policy
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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 Thu, October 29, 2026 • 8:00 am ET

Building collective cognitive resilience: A cross-strait and beyond seminar
Artificial Intelligence Disinformation Indo-Pacific Japan