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Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate
Publisher description: Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear
The Guardian | Sep 18, 2026 | Dan Milmo and Aisha Down
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“The EU AI Act is not something that everybody else in the world feels constrained by, although many tech companies will of course want to sell to the EU,” she says. Big tech still has a vast customer base in Europe. Kaltheuner worries that the doomsday narratives will push Europe towards dependency, encouraging it to adopt US AI models across the economy out of ill-defined fears over being left behind.
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