At a Berlin AI conference full of ministers and CEOs, nobody discussed AI as a civilizational event
tobias_rees · x · 2026-09-09
Academic tobiasrees reports from a two-day Europe AI conference in Berlin featuring ministers, CEOs, and diplomats: not a single talk framed AI as a frontier or civilizational event — the only AI-related panel was about regulation. His observation highlights the gap between Europe's regulatory framing of AI and the transformative stakes the rest of the industry debates.
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