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American AI in a Changing World: Experts Debate Sovereignty, Strategy and Global Stakes

The discussion focused on governments shifting from regulating AI to actively participating in its markets

Naomi Jindra

Naomi Jindra

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American AI in a Changing World: Experts Debate Sovereignty, Strategy and Global Stakes
From left: Paul Timmers (top), a professor at KU Leuven and former director at the European Commission, Marc-Etienne Ouimette (bottom), founder of Cardinal Policy, Joshua P. Meltzer, a senior fellow at Brookings, Samm Sacks, a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and Pablo Chavez, Founder and Principal at Tech Policy Solutions LLC and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2025 – Global leaders are racing to invest in and regulate artificial intelligence, creating new questions about “sovereign AI” and how much control governments can or should exert over the technology.

Today at a Brookings Institution panel discussion titled “American AI in a Changing World,” experts from the United States, Europe and Canada discussed how national strategies are taking shape and where cooperation and competition intersect.

Joshua P. Meltzer, a senior fellow at Brookings, opened the panel by noting the scale of global investment. “In 2024 private sector investment was over $100 billion into AI,” he said. “That’s 12 times private sector investment into China in that year.” He added that the tension between innovation and regulation has defined AI policy worldwide.

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