Europe Has No Frontier AI Industry — but Plenty of New AI Rules
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The European Union is preparing to lay down the law on artificial intelligence. It would be a more impressive move if Europe had any frontier AI to regulate. It doesn't.
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The European Union is setting off on a warpath against artificial intelligence and the data centers that power it. For a bloc that has yet to produce a single frontier AI model, the campaign underscores just how much more Europe values regulation than innovation.
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The European Union is preparing to lay down the law on artificial intelligence. It would be a more impressive move if Europe had any frontier AI to regulate. It doesn't. The bloc can't point to a single world-leading model, just data centers struggling for power and a rulebook that keeps growing every time the technology makes headlines.
You don't have to be an AI optimist to see the problem. Brussels treats every new technology as a risk to manage first and an opportunity to build second. The result is a stack of regulations that makes it harder to run the servers you already have, while American labs keep pushing the actual frontier. We're not surprised. Europe has chosen to be the world's AI referee, not a player. That's a choice, and it shows.
The United States has its own share of AI hand-wringing, but we haven't let it strangle the industry. Companies are investing in data centers, chips, and models because the government hasn.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.