“Europe choked its own creative engineering pipeline with regulation and paralysis by consensus. The precautionary delay was successfully narrated by a Critique Industry that monopolized both academia and public discourse.”
– Tech theorist and
Antikythera director
Benjamin Bratton, offering a harsh critique of Europe’s cautious “regulate first, build later (maybe)” approach. “Today, the EU has AI regulation but not much AI to regulate, leaving European nations more dependent on U.S. & Chinese platforms,” Bratton writes. “This is what backfiring looks like.”