This paper comes from the professional community of the common European data space for cultural heritage, including the Europeana Initiative as steward of this data space. It reflects discussions from the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI – a collective intelligence exercise that has engaged over 400 professionals since May 2025 to this date. It is primarily written for the European cultural heritage sector. And while it reflects the perspectives of the data space community, it also articulates a shared position for the wider sector. In doing so, it aims to contribute in concrete, operational ways to a Public AI future in Europe.

https://pro.europeana.eu/files/data_space/publications/The_case_for_Public_AI_PDF.pdf