A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency

🔴 Why This Matters - Europe faces an existential tech gap that could reshape global power dynamics if AI leadership concentrates in US and China hands.

Does a thought-experiment about US ascendancy in the technology say as much about AI jitters as it does about the reality? It’s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces. The US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies “restructured” their workflows around AI and fired people, while EU workers went on long lunch breaks and handed over administrative tasks to the AI model Claude. Con

Source: The Guardian

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