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Eighth Edition: November 20th, 2026

When an AI crisis crosses borders, who picks up the phone?
As AI systems demonstrate capabilities that governance structures were not built to handle, the Eighth Edition of The Athens Roundtable convenes the actors who would operate a cross-border response, in Brussels on November 20, 2026, to assess the readiness of existing coordination mechanisms in the event of a serious AI crisis.

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"Three points should anchor the discussion around AI and the rule of law: the values of free and open societies, dynamic and flexible legal and regulatory frameworks and cross-Atlantic consensus."

Carl Bildt

Former Prime Minister and former Foreign Minister of Sweden

"The discussions we have today about how to regulate AI, will reverberate for generations to come. We are settings the rules for a technology, which has the potential to transform our society even more profoundly than the internet."

Representative Yvette D. Clarke

U.S. House of Representatives, Vice Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee

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