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Thu 11 Jun 2026 · 18:00 · Commons Hub Brussels
Fostering AI Resilience in the EU Labour Market
Samuel Goodger · European Policy Centre
We are a community of policy experts, researchers, and civil society leaders thinking seriously about how Europe should respond to advanced AI.
Join our events We are a community of policy experts, researchers, and civil society leaders exploring what advanced AI means for Europe’s future.
Our focus is on exploring the profound societal impacts of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—AI systems capable of performing any intellectual task human beings can do. We convene, analyze, and debate this transition, advocating for proactive approaches that will safeguard people and society.
We are at an inflection point. AI systems are crossing capability thresholds that, until recently, most experts placed decades away. The implications — for work, for power, for security, for Europe — are still largely unprocessed by the institutions that will need to respond.
The Brussels AGI Collective exists to help close that gap: by bringing the right people together for conversations serious enough to matter.
In just a few years, AI systems have gone from narrow tools to general-purpose models that can write code, conduct research, and reason across complex domains. Leading forecasts now place AI matching or exceeding humans at most cognitive work somewhere between 2030 and 2040. Timelines remain uncertain, but the direction is clear: capabilities that seemed decades away are arriving much sooner than expected.
AI of this kind would not be just another general-purpose technology. It could reshape labour markets, scientific progress, military capability, and the balance of power between states. Alongside the opportunities come risks our institutions were not designed for: large-scale misuse, accidents in critical systems, concentration of power, and systems whose behaviour we cannot reliably predict.
Europe lacks the strategic awareness, institutional capacity, and integrated strategy this transition demands. There is no Draghi-scale plan for AGI preparedness. But Europe still has serious assets: a strong research base, regulatory credibility, and a record of building institutions when it has to. The window is narrow, but it is still open.
Each month we bring together people working on AI governance for an evening built around a recent report or a specific question, introduced by an expert who knows it closely. The format is a short presentation, then a fireside chat and open discussion under the Chatham House Rule. We avoid panels deliberately: rather than a series of brief exchanges, we want to give people time to set out a view, disagree carefully, and engage with the substance.
We host talks in Brussels every month. Follow us on LinkedIn for updates on upcoming events, recaps of past discussions, and occasional commentary on the big questions around advanced AI.
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