Instead, a successful EU AI foreign policy should guarantee that the EU will benefit from the security and economic advantages that AI provides, even if it cannot lead the global AI race for the foreseeable future. AI to amplify and insureThe EU needs to channel these indispensable assets through a new AI foreign policy, which can also amplify the goals laid out in the AI Continent Action Plan. An EU AI foreign policy would help to deter, or allow the EU to retaliate to, such threats. The EU’s AI foreign policy could also act as a lever to amplify the global effect of the EU’s AI regulation. As such, an AI foreign policy is not simply nice for the EU to have: Europeans need to go beyond low-level internal policy reform to secure their AI future.