Description: Resolves YES if there is strong evidence that the US federal government explicitly used, threatened to restrict, conditioned, or offered access to AI-related technology, infrastructure, models, chips, cloud compute, data, standards cooperation, or export permissions as bargaining leverage in trade negotiations with the EU before January 1st 2028. This includes cases where US officials link EU access to AI capabilities or AI supply chains to concessions on tariffs, digital regulation, market access, industrial policy, data rules, competition enforcement, or other trade-related issues.

Resolves YES based on official statements, published agreements, leaked or released negotiating documents, credible major-media reporting, or equivalent evidence showing that AI access was used as a negotiating tool.

Resolves NO if AI is merely discussed in US-EU talks without being used as leverage, if the US takes general AI/export-control actions not tied to EU trade negotiations, if the action is only by private companies without US government direction, or if the evidence is speculative or insufficient by January 1st 2028.

For this question, “the EU” includes EU institutions such as the European Commission and formal US-EU trade or economic negotiations. The resolution date is January 1st 2028, 00:00 UTC.