EU will be AI's biggest victim, argues thread: it suppresses everything AI rewards
robleclerc · x · 2026-09-04
A widely shared thread argues the EU will be AI's biggest loser: AI rewards exactly what Europe spent thirty years suppressing—speed, risk-taking, scale, cheap energy, capital concentration and tolerance for failure.
The author predicts the US will build the models, China the infrastructure, the Gulf will finance it, and smaller states will deploy first—while the EU produces impact assessments. Because AI is a general-purpose technology replacing administrative, legal and analytical work, regulation this time won't just make Europeans slightly poorer.
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