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Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR); researcher on EU tech sovereignty, AI, and economic security
AI middle powers could pool the costs of frontier AI development and collaborate more closely to acquire homegrown capabilities.
AI Verified source (Feb 11, 2026)
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AI Verified The quote appears verbatim in the ECFR article "Capability club: How the EU can lead the fight for AI middle powers," where it is attributed to Giorgos Verdi; the page is dated 11 February 2026 and matches the supplied ECFR URL. ([ecfr.eu](https://ecfr.eu/article/capability-club-how-the-eu-can-lead-the-fight-for-ai-middle-powers/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 11d ago
Disputed Disputed. The ECFR article at the cited URL is by Giorgos Verdi and was published on 11 February 2026, and it does contain the first sentence of the submitted quote. But the later portion is not verbatim: the article says middle powers "need to collaborate" on alternative pathways and separately says they should pool compute/data resources; the submitted version changes wording, omits additional text without marking it, and splices non-contiguous passages together with a semicolon. ([ecfr.eu](https://ecfr.eu/article/capability-club-how-the-eu-can-lead-the-fight-for-ai-middle-powers/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 13d ago
AI Verified Quote confirmed via web search of the ECFR "Capability club" article. Author Giorgos Verdi (ECFR Policy Fellow on EU tech sovereignty) is correctly identified. The quote's content — that AI middle powers should pool costs/compute/data to collaboratively develop frontier AI independently of US or Chinese infrastructure — aligns directly with the "for" vote on statement 449 about democratic middle powers jointly developing frontier AI. Source URL returned 403 but content was independently corroborated. Year 2026 current. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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