The EU Strategy on Artificial Intelligence In 2018

Most may at the time of writing associate EU with Brexit since the United Kingdom is pulling out of the union. The European Union and their member countries does together have a population of approximately 500 million and about $22.0 trillion GDP which places EU as the 2nd largest economic force in the world. Therefore by some measures it is an important area to keep track of, and the international strategy for EU relating to AI may be of interest. By summarising some of these policies in a pragmatic way I hope you as a reader understand that this is no substitute for reading the documents, rather an attempt to bring together a few key points. What I provide is of course not a complete picture, rather small excerpts from an ongoing discussion. Looking at the EU strategy it can be hard to understand where to start.