AI Access Is Becoming a Geopolitical Dependency
Europe's dependence on foreign frontier AI models is a strategic risk. Digital sovereignty requires the capacity to build, not only regulate.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator
Blog
My notes from the intersection of research, teaching, and practice. I write about how organizations and people meet technology. Two threads keep coming back.
One is digital and AI transformation in small and medium-sized enterprises, where most of the published advice doesn’t survive contact with the resource constraints that define the segment.
The other is generative AI as persuasive actors: the asymmetric way these systems learn to push us, and what an honest answer to that looks like.
Most of my posts are conference notes, classroom-tested arguments, or projects I’ve shipped.
2026
Synthetic empathy as a design lever: notes from MobiWIS 2026
A randomized experiment with 126 users tested whether an empathic chatbot changes how users move from understanding to action. The structure of the path changed, not just the tone.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator
Shipping my first open-source release
After two decades of quietly standing on the shoulders of the open-source community, I finally shipped something back. It's called Worth Building: an AI-native framework for deciding whether a business idea is actually worth your next three months.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator
19th IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2026 in Zagreb
Notes from my paper at the 19th IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2026 in Zagreb on AI and synthetic empathy: when AI simulates emotions to persuade users.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator
2025
MobiWIS 2025 in Istanbul
Presenting the open-source SMEDT framework at MobiWIS 2025 in Istanbul: a capability-driven, AI-first approach to help SMEs succeed at digital transformation.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator