Who Will Control Europe’s AI Future? (with Judith Dada)

Europe risks entering the age of advanced AI without the infrastructure needed to control its own future.

In this episode, Henry and I speak to Judith Dada, co-author of Europe 2031, about its warning that Europe could become dangerously dependent on American AI companies and infrastructure.

We discuss:

- Whether Europe is underestimating the speed and significance of AI progress

- What a fictional scenario can tell us about the future

- Why AI adoption may lag behind technical progress

- Whether Europe needs its own OpenAI

- Why Judith thinks Europe should invest heavily in data centres and compute

- Whether European control of compute would provide real geopolitical leverage

- The tensions between AI sovereignty, economic growth, regulation and environmental goals

- What human abilities may become more valuable as intelligence becomes abundant

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