Nina Schick: Stopping AI Would Repeat Europe's Climate Mistake — 'Economic and Civilisational Suicide'
NinaDSchick · x · 2026-09-11
AI author Nina Schick draws a parallel between AI hysteria and climate hysteria, arguing Europe's energy policies amounted to economic suicide while failing to stop China, India, or even Germany from burning coal — and failing to cut emissions.
Her argument:
- Real solutions come from innovation and engineering (new nuclear paradigms, space-based solar), not from stopping progress; AI itself is already a conduit for new knowledge, needed even for alignment.
- Trying to halt AI won't stop China, India, or others — she cites Iran's regime using Claude because it lacks its own frontier capabilities, arguing a free society must never let adversaries surpass it.
Conclusion: with the US clearly leading, stopping AI development would be not just economic but potentially civilisational suicide.
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