Welcome to AI Watch, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) AI website.  

On this page, we share all the latest JRC publications, events and news related to AI, particular when it comes to our research and policy support on the development, uptake and regulation of AI technologies. Our teams publish research, tools and analyses relevant for policymakers and the research community, to provide clear and reliable information that can support evidence-led approaches and inform the public discussion.

We deploy interdisciplinary scientific knowledge in various areas, including: 

• evolution and maturity level of AI technologies across sectors
• policy initiatives around AI and developments in regulation 
• real-world adoption of AI and its societal impact. 
• methodologies and standards for trustworthy and transparent AI systems  

We contribute to shaping the European digital society in an ethical, trustworthy, human-centred way by integrating sound and frontier scientific know-how from different disciplines, including engineering, informatics, law and social science.

History of the AI Watch project

AI Watch started as a European Commission knowledge service created to monitor the development, uptake and impact of AI in Europe, operational between 2018 and 2022.   

This initiative monitored:

• industrial, technological and research capacity on AI in the European Union
• AI-related policy initiatives in the Member States
• uptake and technical developments of AI
• AI impact

Key outcomes of the project include the following reports;

AI Watch. European landscape on the use of Artificial Intelligence by the Public Sector, 2022

AI Watch. National strategies on Artificial Intelligence: A European perspective, 2022

Estimating investments in General Purpose Technologies: The case of AI Investments in Europe, 2020  

In addition, a range of interactive dashboards were created to enable exploration of nation-level data. These are still available below, however please keep in mind that the data  has not been updated since 2020.

AI Watch Landscape Dashboard  

AI Watch Investments Dashboard  
 

AI Watch was developed by the JRC in collaboration with the Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). 

Since the inception of AI Watch, the JRC’s AI research work has broadened in scope. The AI Watch Portal today is the point of reference of all the latest JRC research on Artificial Intelligence.