Europe brought a knife to an AI gun fight
The bloc's failure to deal with its underlying structural missteps has set it up to lose in the global race around the emerging technology.
IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and every time you (probably like me) feel you're falling behind tech trends, watch this video and remember: you're doing just fine.
— The European Union is falling into the same trap on artificial intelligence as did in previous global shifts in technology.
— The attacks against global online safety laws are framed almost exclusively via the prism of domestic American politics.
— Microsoft, Meta and Google just made it more difficult for politicians to speak directly to would-be voters in Europe.
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