Plenary session
22 October 2026
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PLENARY European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:03 - 00:41
Speaker 3
Buongiorno care colleghe e cari colleghi, la seduta è aperta. E l'ordine del giorno reca la dichiarazione della Commissione sul rafforzamento della governance globale dell'intelligenza artificiale. E diamo il benvenuto a nome della Commissione al commissario Sikela che ascoltiamo subito.
00:41 - 02:35
Speaker 2
Honorable President, honorable members. Artificial intelligence knows no border. International engagement is therefore necessary and an integral part of the European Union AI strategy. Leading by example, we work with international partners while safeguarding our values and strategic interests. Shaping AI's global efforts means supporting innovation, setting appropriate guardrails and contributing to effective global AI governance.
The EU promotes innovation-friendly, trustworthy and human-centric AI through both bilateral partnerships and multilateral cooperation. International engagement spans across the major fora where artificial intelligence governance is discussed, including the G7, G20, the United Nations, AI summits, OECD, Council of Europe and the network of AI safety and security institutes. Responsible AI stewardship is central to our efforts to promote sound governance and ensure that AI develops in ways that serve people and society. EU international cooperation ranges from governance and regulation to research, innovation, adoption and the use of AI for public good. Recent AI incidents have shown the need to put appropriate guardrails on AI.
02:35 - 04:29
Speaker 1
The EU AI Act is well equipped to respond to the challenges. Indeed, AI holds great opportunities for us all, but unless we address the risks, we will not be able to unlock that potential. This is why the Commission is actively engaging with partner countries, both bilaterally and in multilateral contexts, also to strengthen the safety and security of AI. As the President emphasized last month, we will step up our cooperation with like-minded partners. We want to team up and advance work on model evaluation, verification, early warning, AI security and much more.
We firmly believe that appropriate safeguards do not stifle innovation. On the contrary, trust is one of its essential foundations. People and businesses are more likely to adopt AI when they can rely on it. Under the AI Act, the European Commission has sent requests for information to leading companies across the globe.
Our cooperation goes beyond safety and security. AI can help predict weather extreme events, issue warnings about food production, cure cancer, manage energy grids. The list is long. These are areas where international cooperation is extremely important. That is why international cooperation must be high on the global AI agenda.
Thank you very much and I look forward to the discussion.
04:29 - 04:44
Grazie, grazie Commissario Sikela, oh sorry, grazie Commissario Sikela, diamo ora la parola all'onorevole Maydell.
04:44 - 05:07
Madam President, Commissioner, dear colleagues. For decades our tools possessed one reassuring virtue: they waited for us. A hammer could strike, but could not pick the nail. A calculator gave us the answer but could never ask the question. Today the tool no longer stops at the answer.
05:07 - 05:33
It acts upon it. This month an AI agent filed a false homicide report. Others breached their testing cages and compromised their own monitoring systems. We cannot pretend we did not see this coming, because we did. The AI Act anticipated that greater autonomy would bring greater risk.