My name is Valerio Del Buono. As an independent author, applied philosopher, and independent consultant in the ethical interfaces between human cognition and artificial intelligence, I feel compelled to express growing concern about the current regulatory and commercial deadlock between the United States and Europe.
This message is intended for analysts, regulators, and defense-linked strategic planners on both sides of the Atlantic.
Due to persistent regulatory delays and financial bottlenecks between U.S. and E.U. institutions, several advanced initiatives with relevance to long-term AI alignment and cognitive risk mitigation are at risk of being absorbed by non-aligned actors or sovereign infrastructures beyond NATO jurisdiction.
Specifically, the unilateral closure of key funding and collaboration pathways is already triggering irreversible transfers of cognitive and developmental assets to third-party nations, particularly in regions characterized by high strategic permeability.
This inertia threatens to produce precisely the outcome global security frameworks are meant to avoid: the loss of both narrative and operational control over the evolution of general-purpose artificial intelligence.
I therefore urge all readers with decision-making proximity to consider pushing for a rapid reactivation of transatlantic cooperation channels, with particular attention to the Italian front — so that we do not fall behind in what is increasingly recognized as the defining technological frontier and the new arms race of this century.
— Valerio Del Buono Philosopher and independent researcher and consultant on AI alignment and human-machine ethics
Institutional inertia is pushing strategic AI assets out of NATO-controlled spheres – an appeal
My name is Valerio Del Buono. As an independent author, applied philosopher, and independent consultant in the ethical interfaces between human cognition and artificial intelligence, I feel compelled to express growing concern about the current regulatory and commercial deadlock between the United States and Europe.
This message is intended for analysts, regulators, and defense-linked strategic planners on both sides of the Atlantic.
Due to persistent regulatory delays and financial bottlenecks between U.S. and E.U. institutions, several advanced initiatives with relevance to long-term AI alignment and cognitive risk mitigation are at risk of being absorbed by non-aligned actors or sovereign infrastructures beyond NATO jurisdiction.
Specifically, the unilateral closure of key funding and collaboration pathways is already triggering irreversible transfers of cognitive and developmental assets to third-party nations, particularly in regions characterized by high strategic permeability.
This inertia threatens to produce precisely the outcome global security frameworks are meant to avoid: the loss of both narrative and operational control over the evolution of general-purpose artificial intelligence.
I therefore urge all readers with decision-making proximity to consider pushing for a rapid reactivation of transatlantic cooperation channels, with particular attention to the Italian front — so that we do not fall behind in what is increasingly recognized as the defining technological frontier and the new arms race of this century.
— Valerio Del Buono
Philosopher and independent researcher and consultant on AI alignment and human-machine ethics