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Strategic AI capabilities sit at the same structural chokepoint as energy supply: when critical infrastructure is owned or controlled by a foreign party, that party holds leverage.
Henna Virkkunen, the European Union's digital chief, applied that logic directly to AI, warning that the technology is becoming a geopolitical weapon and that Europe needs to stop relying on what she described as an unpredictable Washington for strategic capabilities.
The lever Virkkunen is identifying Strategic capabilities, in this context, means AI that a government or economy treats as load-bearing.
The specific risk Virkkunen is naming is not that AI will be deployed against Europe but that access to it can be conditioned or withdrawn.
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