A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI
Europe runs about five percent of the world’s AI data centre capacity. A group of senior European economists, policymakers and computer scientists has now put a figure on where it should be by 2030.
Fifteen percent, which means building three times what exists today while the global total keeps climbing underneath.
Philippe Aghion won the Nobel Prize in economics, and Margrethe Vestager ran competition policy in Brussels for a decade and served as the Commission’s executive vice-president.
Monika Schnitzer chairs Germany’s council of economic experts, while Marta Kwiatkowska is a professor of computing systems at Oxford. Their Transformative AI Strategy for Europe reads closer to a warning than to a white paper.
“We cannot allow Europe to become a playground for foreign powers. Our citizens are already bearing the economic and social consequences of decisions taken elsewhere. AI will accelerate this development, transforming our personal lives and relations, learning and...
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