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The coming AI Impact Summit in New Delhi is the place to start building a coalition to scale up AI adoption, write @ACGeoTech’s @TrishBytes, Keyzom Ngodup Massally, and Shalini Kapoorand. Read more: atlanticcouncil.org/uncategorized/…

🇮🇳 As host of the AI Impact Summit, India has the opportunity to build a framework that enables emerging economies to tap the benefits of AI adoption, writes @ACGeoTech’s @TrishBytes. Read more: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/geotech-…

🗓️ TOMORROW | 🕝 2:30 p.m. ET @ACGeoTech invites you to #RoadtoImpact: India’s AI Talent Playbook, an official AI Impact Summit to map the next decade of AI skilling for developing economies. Register now ➡️ bit.ly/4raiRIS

🗓️Join the GeoTech Center IN-PERSON or ONLINE on January 20 at 3:00pm ET for our panel, "AI innovation and the talent gap: Competing at the pace of technical change."💡 Register for the event here: atlanticcouncil.org/event/ai-innov…

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Join the GeoTech Center and Symphony Space IN-PERSON or ONLINE on Jan 8 at 3:00pm for our event series "COSMIC COORDINATION: Space Diplomacy in an Era of Strategic Competition” to explore what science diplomacy looks like in an increasingly utilized space domain. 🚀🛰️🌌🌟

WATCH | What is 3I/ATLAS, and why has it sparked so much excitement and conversation on social media? @ACGeoTech’s Rebecca Connolly shares some insights:

What should participants and the world expect from the upcoming AI Impact Summit in New Delhi? Despite the headline attention on impact, safety needs to be fundamental to India’s vision for AI, writes @ACGeoTech’s @TrishBytes: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

📢 Introducing the @AtlanticCouncil GeoTech Commission on Artificial Intelligence This new Commission brings together bipartisan Congressional leaders, top industry executives, and innovators across #AI to ensure the United States maintain its leadership in a world increasingly defined by AI. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/43IBave

📽️ Assistant Director Emily Sespico is joined by @WorldBank's Ming Zhang to discuss urbanization and economic growth alongside last week's IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting.

LIVE NOW | Heba Shams @Mastercard, Amira Karim @Amazon, and Abhineet Kaul @AccessAlerts in conversation with @TrishBytes @ACGeoTech Center on how AI is reshaping economies, unlocking growth, testing stability, and redefining inclusion. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🗓️Oct 15 | AI for resilient and inclusive finance A panel on how AI can drive growth, stability & fairness in financial access. Speakers from Amazon, Mastercard & @AccessAlerts Moderator: @TrishBytes Full IMF–World Bank Week agenda➡️atlanticcouncil.org/imf-world-bank…

Today we welcomed a delegation of tech experts visiting with @prochile_us as part of their Chile Tech Tour. Special thank you to our speakers and moderators. @VenableLLP @ACGeoTech @RecordedFuture #ACChile

🗓️ TOMORROW | 🕤 9:30 a.m. ET | 📍 NYC #ACinNY Join the @AtlanticCouncil for a fireside chat with @jacobhelberg, adviser for the White House Council of Economic Advisers, as we discuss how the United States can harness the potential of #AI. Register now ➡️ bit.ly/4ndevPl

🗓️ September 5 | 🕥 10:30 a.m. ET Join the @AtlanticCouncil as we explore resilience and governance frameworks in the #AI supply chain. As #AI systems become integral to national interests, ensuring trustworthy infrastructure is vital. Register now ➡️ bit.ly/4n70cLZ

If implemented effectively, the bipartisan Chip Security Act could help counter the illicit transshipment and diversion of AI chips to US adversaries, writes @ACGeoTech’s Kit Conklin. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/geotech-…

In June, Bolivia rejected a proposal from Starlink to provide satellite-based internet to the country. @ACGeoTech’s Olivia Torres explains why the issue of satellite internet in Latin America deserves a closer look: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

The US can’t lead the way on AI through dominance alone The AI Action Plan makes one thing clear: the United States isn’t just trying to win the AI race—it’s trying to engineer the track unilaterally. With sweeping ambitions to export US-made chips, models, and standards, the plan signals a cutting-edge strategy to rally allies and counter China. But it also takes a big gamble. Rather than co-design AI governance with democratic allies and partners, it pushes a “buy American, trust American” model. This will likely ring hollow for countries across Europe and the Indo-Pacific that have invested heavily in building their own AI rules around transparency, climate action, and digital equity. There’s a lot to like in the plan’s push for infrastructure investment and workforce development, which is a necessary step toward building serious AI capacity. But its sidelining of critical safeguards and its dismissal of issues like misinformation, climate change, and diversity, equity, and inclusion continues to have a sandpaper effect on traditional partners and institutions that have invested heavily in aligning AI with public values. If US developers are pressured to walk away from those same principles, the alliance could fray and the social license to operate in these domains will inevitably suffer. The United States can lead the way—but not through dominance alone. An alliance is built on the stabilizing forces of trust, not tech stack supply chains or destabilizing attempts to force partners to follow one country’s standards. Building this trust will require working together to respond to the ways that AI shapes our societies, not just unilaterally fixating on its growth. — Raul Brens Jr. is the director of the @ACGeoTech Center.

On international partnerships, the AI Action Plan is all sticks, few carrots The AI Action Plan’s strongest message is that the United States should meet, not curb, global demand for AI. To achieve this, the plan suggests a novel and ambitious approach: full-stack AI export packages through industry consortia. What is the AI stack? Most definitions include five layers: infrastructure, data, development, deployment, and application. Arguably, monitoring and governance is a critical sixth layer. US companies dominate components of different layers (e.g. chips, talent, cloud services, and models). But the United States’ ability to export full-stack AI solutions, the carrot in this scenario, is limited by a rather large stick: its broad export control regime, which includes the Foreign Director Product Rule and Export Administration Regulations. Governance remains the layer the United States is weakest on. The AI Action Plan does emphasize countering adversarial influence in international governance bodies, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Group of Seven (G7), the Group of Twenty (G20), and the International Telecommunication Union. However, the plan undermines the consensus-based AI governance efforts within these bodies, including an apparent jibe at the G7 Code of Conduct. If it seeks real alignment with allies and partners, the White House must outline an affirmative vision for values-based global AI governance. — @TrishBytes is an associate director and resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s @ACGeoTech Center, part of the Atlantic Council Technology Programs.

Next February, India will host the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. @ACGeoTech’s Evi Fuelle and @courtneylang1 outline four key priorities for governments to advance AI adoption and global collaboration: atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/geotech-…