Dec 21, 2025
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Instead of 27 member states pursuing their own goals, the EU needs to develop specialized clusters and strategic ecosystems connecting universities, start-ups and investors.
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for Federico Fubi
Instead of the 27 member states pursuing their own goals, the EU needs to develop specialized clusters and ecosystems of universities, start-ups and investors.
The saying that there is an opportunity in every problem is probably just a bit of a catchy mantra.However, Marietje Schaake, a former member of parliament for the Dutch Democratic Party 66, a member of the Human Centered Human Science Institute at Stanford University and the author of the book The Tech Coup: How to make money from Silicon Valley, believes that in the end, but increasingly predictable, the explosion of AI for Europe will have a chance.
pa Federico Fubini
"An aspect of the understanding of the new national security strategy of the United States is how much Washington fears a strong Union, as a single market, a democratic bloc and, above all, as a regulator of technology, - begins Schaak in the Financial Times article -. Meanwhile, the Americans often tell the Europeans that they are losing the AI race. is presented as the holy grail But the bubble of AI platforms dominated by the United States will not last long This in turn will create newopportunities for Europe in the field of artificial intelligence.
By Henry Brown
Schhake explains what he means by applied AI with some concrete examples: "A German car manufacturer doesn't need a chatbot trained on the entire Internet. Take advantage of AI systems trained on high-quality engineering data to optimize production processes, predict maintenance needs or improve safety reports. A hospital in the Netherlands needs diagnostic tools that don't meet French standards. In efficiency it needs AIthat offers improvements while adhering to strict financial services regulations."
By Alessandra Poitou
The AI architecture is fundamentally, more focused, more controlled, more sustainable and therefore safer: "Europe should focus on protecting systems from the ground up instead of patching vulnerabilities after implementation. Chasing Big Tech, it may be entrusted to repair the damage caused by "moving fast and breaking things" has already proven to be a failed strategy."
The stumbling block to "AI with European characteristics" is always the same: the Union will not have to be divided on the 27th.And industrial enterprises should develop front-line research on artificial intelligence.Power politics ready to play.
The AI Factory (European high-performance computing infrastructure, more info here) is an approach to democratize access, unlock shared data and IT infrastructure for research and development.However, more sovereign computing power and AI infrastructure are needed.Shared resources can support shared data for scientific research, AI systems for education, and tools for democratic participation in the service of the public interest.The availability of ownership capacity should also make the EU less vulnerable to geopolitical shocks.Technology must be an integral part of the plan to free Europe from its excessive dependence on the United States in trade, finance and defense.
par Massimo Gaggi
What does the potential bursting of the AI bubble have to do with all of this?«When the artificial intelligence bubble bursts, many reviews will be redone.Talent will be available.Users will ask themselves if they need a system that is more expensive, risky and less transparent.US national security strategy inadvertently shows that the Trump administration sees the EU's power more clearly than the Europeans themselves.The rest of the EU should be convinced that it can make a different choice in favor of trust, security, sectoral excellence and democratic accountability.You have to redouble your efforts to develop alternatives before you become involved in further levels of dependency.The question is not whether the artificial intelligence bubble will burst, but whether Europe will be able to seize the moment."
Nga Giovanni Caprara
Of course, in order not to fall into another mantra ("The United States innovates, China copies and Europe enforces the rules"), the warning that Mario Draghi repeated in his speech at the Polytechnic University of Milan a few weeks ago still applies: "Allowing the spread of new technologies without control, as has happened with social media, cannot prevent an alternative with equal potential. Wrong."However, it would be a risk, as DeepMind co-founder and current Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman wrote in his lucid and disturbing book The Coming Wave: "Understanding technology is partly about understanding its unintended consequences and predicting not only their positive effects but also their 'retaliatory effects'."Agenda that must be followed or worse.Before we can exploit the limited potential of future technologies, the wave must have a very intense, unique and entirely human impact on all technology.
