Europe 2031: What getting AI wrong means for us

atlasunshrugged 17 points 5 comments June 11, 2026
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hunglee2

Europe - the place that produced Nokia, Palm, Skype - should have erected a Great Firewall in 2000's. Instead, it bought into the idea of an open internet and ended up getting assimilated into US tech eco-system. This seemed harmless at the time, but Trump 2.0 has exposed it as a catastrophic strategic mistake. Not too late - perhaps EU will get through EU AI Act / GDPR and similar barricade of red tape?

jdkee

I wonder if this was written via an American AI or a Chinese one?

eadwu

Europe is weird. You complain so much to the point that nationalism is becoming prevalent but when someone tries to force you to be independent you complain every way possible to not be independent? But then when you are dependent you complain about not being equivalent. It doesn't work both ways.

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