{"id":85607,"date":"2025-10-03T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.noemamag.com"},"modified":"2025-10-03T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:59:59","slug":"ai-acceleration-vs-precaution","status":"publish","type":"wpm-article","link":"https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/ai-acceleration-vs-precaution","title":{"rendered":"AI Acceleration Vs. Precaution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he was president of France in the 1960s, Charles de Gaulle intuitively understood that his nation could not be a sovereign player on the world stage during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union unless it possessed its own nuclear weapons.<\/p><div>\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"noa-web-audio-player\"\n            style=\"border: none\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/embed-player.newsoveraudio.com\/v4?key=n0e13g&#038;id=https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/ai-acceleration-vs-precaution\/&#038;bgColor=F3F3F3&#038;color=6D6D6D&#038;progressBgColor=F7F7F7&#038;progressBorderColor=6D6D6D&#038;playColor=F3F3F3&#038;titleColor=383D3D&#038;timeColor=6D6D6D&#038;speedColor=6D6D6D&#038;noaLinkColor=6D6D6D&#038;noaLinkHighlightColor=039BE5\"\n            width=\"100%\" height=\"110px\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><p>What was true for France then is true today for the European Union, as China and America dominate AI. The continent cannot achieve strategic autonomy as a sovereign entity unless it joins the club with its own significant capacity.<\/p><p>American Big Tech already dominates Europe, which has struggled to start up its own industry, with the exceptions of the French company, Mistral AI, and the critical Dutch manufacturer of high-end chips, ASML. In the U.S., OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, DeepMind, Amazon, Meta and Nvidia are spending hundreds of billions on AI research and infrastructure. Driven by state investment, China is spending comparative billions and has shown its ability to compete globally through open-source AI models such as DeepSeek.<\/p><p>AI differs from nuclear weapons because it is a foundational technology that will transform all aspects of life. As such, it is not merely a technological achievement, but a cultural project. It is here that Europe\u2019s precautionary temperament clashes with the accelerationist fever of Silicon Valley.<\/p><p>Does this place Europe at a competitive disadvantage that will fatally impede its advance in AI? Or will Europe\u2019s deliberative vigilance save humanity from handing over the keys of the kingdom to intelligent machines?<\/p><p>The core conflict between America and its European geopolitical allies is their differing approaches to AI; the former seeks to \u201cbuild first, regulate later,\u201d while the latter seeks to \u201cregulate first, build later.\u201d<\/p><p>To explore this divergence within the West, Noema invited two top thinkers on technology to debate the topic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/is-european-ai-a-lost-cause-not-necessarily\/\">Benjamin Bratton<\/a> directs the Antikythera project on planetary-scale computation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/reclaiming-europes-digital-sovereignty\/\">Francesca Bria<\/a> is Barcelona\u2019s former chief technology and innovation officer. Their exchange is more polemical than Noema\u2019s tone usually accommodates, an expression of the passions aroused when the stakes are so high.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-the-precautionary-principle-backfires\"><strong>When The Precautionary Principle Backfires<\/strong><\/h2><p>Bratton maintains that Europe\u2019s \u201cregulate first, build later (maybe)\u201d approach is backfiring, only resulting in \u201cgreater dependency and frustration, rather than any hoped-for technological sovereignty.\u201d<\/p><p>As he sees it, \u201cEurope 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. Oxygen and resources were monopolized by endless stakeholder working groups, debates about omnibus legislation and symposia about resistance \u2014 all incentivizing European talent to flee and American and Chinese platforms to fill the gaps.\u201d<\/p><p>Bratton analogizes Europe\u2019s present wariness of AI with how it killed the nuclear power industry in recent decades (outside of France), only to end up being dependent on Russian oil and gas for energy.<\/p><p>The lesson he draws for Europe is that it must not repeat its mistakes. \u201cDo not ban, throttle or demonize a new general-purpose technology with tremendous potential just because it also implies risk. The precautionary principle can be literally fatal. And yet that is precisely what is happening around the newest emerging technological battleground: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/superrr-lab_while-other-ngos-draft-internal-ai-policies-activity-7371493686905462785-ALti?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop_web&amp;rcm=ACoAAABYbY8BwmH6BQZVw8a_6T6vdSU10_KCfP8\">artificial intelligence<\/a>. The same terms used to vilify nuclear power \u2014 \u2018techno-fascist,\u2019 \u2018extractive,\u2019 \u2018existential risk,\u2019 \u2018Promethean madness\u2019 and \u2018fantasy\u2019\u2014&nbsp;are now regularly voiced by today\u2019s Critique Industry to describe AI. \u2026<\/p><p>\u201cEurope surely can and should regulate the emergence of AI according to its \u2018values,\u2019 but it must also be aware that you can\u2019t always get what you want. Europe is free to attempt to legislate its preferred technologies into existence, but that doesn\u2019t mean that the planetary evolution of these technologies will cooperate. \u2026It is up to Europe to decide. That is, Europe may have strong AI regulation, but this may actually prevent the AI it wants from being realized at all (again making it more reliant on American and Chinese platforms). Europe has the right to put its AI under \u2018democratic control\u2019 and supervised \u2018consent\u2019 if it wants to, but it does not have a right to be insulated from the consequences of doing so.\u201d<\/p><p>In short, the accelerationists have all the momentum wherever the flow of capital is abundant and regulation is scarce.&nbsp;<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-digital-colonization-amp-infrastructure-dependency\"><strong>Digital Colonization &amp; Infrastructure Dependency<\/strong><\/h2><p>For Bria, \u201cEurope occupies a paradoxical position: a regulatory leader but an infrastructural dependent. We Europeans have set global standards through GDPR and the AI Act. Our research institutions remain world-class. Yet just 4% of global cloud infrastructure is European-owned. European governments, businesses and citizens depend entirely on systems controlled by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other companies subject to the U.S. CLOUD Act&#8217;s extraterritorial surveillance requirements. When we use \u2018our\u2019 digital services, we&#8217;re actually using American infrastructure governed by American law for American interests.\n          <div class=\"eos-subscribe-push\">\n            \n            <a target=\"https:\/\/shop.noemamag.com\/?utm_source=MiddleCTA&utm_medium=website\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.noemamag.com\/?utm_source=MiddleCTA&utm_medium=website\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read Noema in print.<\/a>\n            \n          <\/div>\n        <\/p><!-- Quote Block Template -->\n\n<figure class=\"quote\">\n\n  <blockquote class=\"quote__container\">\n\n    <div class=\"quote__text\">\n      &#8220;The wise position, as in so much else, would be to not settle on zero-sum convictions but value the creative tension in their opposition.&#8221;    <\/div>\n\n    \n    <div class=\"quote__social-media\">\n      <div\n        class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_35 a2a_default_style\"\n        data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpm-article\/85607\"\n        data-a2a-title='\"The wise position, as in so much else, would be to not settle on zero-sum convictions but value the creative tension in their opposition.\"'\n      >\n        <a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\"><\/a>\n        <a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\"><\/a>\n        <a class=\"a2a_button_email\"><\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/blockquote>\n<\/figure><p>\u201cThis dependency isn&#8217;t abstract \u2014 it&#8217;s existential. In the 21st century, those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself. Europe faces a choice: build sovereign technological capacity or accept digital colonization.\u201d<\/p><p>Bria doesn\u2019t hold back: \u201cMany blame Europe&#8217;s digital paralysis on its critical intellectuals \u2014 those who push back against Silicon Valley accelerationism, crypto hyper-libertarianism and the rise of techno-authoritarianism. But this is misdirected. \u2026The real choice facing Europe isn&#8217;t between criticism and construction but between authoritarian technological models or democratic alternatives.\u201d<\/p><p>The European model, she argues, \u201cdiffers fundamentally from Silicon Valley\u2019s extractive optimization and Beijing\u2019s state control. Europe should start from local demands and strengths, building AI as critical public infrastructure that serves democratic accountability, social purpose and citizen empowerment \u2014 rather than shareholder primacy or state surveillance. When critics dismiss this approach as inefficient, they only expose their ideological commitment to oligopolistic concentration.<\/p><p>\u201cThe difference isn&#8217;t capability but values and political imagination. Silicon Valley optimizes for extraction \u2014 how to capture maximum value from users. Europe optimizes for empowerment \u2014 how to distribute agency across society. These aren&#8217;t compatible goals, which is why importing Silicon Valley&#8217;s model would mean abandoning European democracy. \u2026<\/p><p>\u201cCritics present false choices: either embrace Silicon Valley&#8217;s model or abandon technological ambition. Either accept surveillance capitalism and digital colonialism or abandon digital transformation. Either submit to what some refer to as \u2018planetary evolution\u2019 or retreat to analog irrelevance. These binaries serve those benefiting from current arrangements by making alternatives seem impossible.\u201d<\/p><p>Rather than becoming marginalized, Bria envisions that \u201cEurope\u2019s constraints will become competitive advantages\u201d if AI infrastructure \u201coperates within planetary boundaries while serving democratic rather than extractive purposes. When data centers must run on clean electricity, when water consumption faces strict limits and when carbon pricing reflects true costs.\u201d<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-europe-s-vocation\"><strong>Europe\u2019s Vocation<\/strong><\/h2><p>It is safe to say that Bria encapsulates the general European temper. Jacques Attali, the founder and first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, echoes her claims in more philosophical terms. AI, he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirsd.org\/en\/horizons\/horizons-summer-2025--issue-no-31\/europes-choice-in-the-face-of-global-reckoning\">recently written<\/a>, \u201cis the most radical upheaval humanity has ever known: a shift from the logic of tools to the logic of minds. A moment where decisions are taken before we think, where desires are anticipated before they are born, and where the boundaries between freedom and prediction, between democracy and algorithm, blur into opacity.<\/p><p>\u201cIn this grand transformation of AI,\u201d he continued, \u201cthe role of Europe is not to dominate, but to orient. Not to build the biggest servers, but to write the rules that will preserve our humanity. Not to chase others\u2019 empires, but to become the guardian of meaning in a world flooded with data.<\/p><p>\u201cEurope has always had this singular vocation: to think about the world before transforming it. In the face of artificial intelligence, it is once again Europe\u2019s task not to slow down progress, but to ensure that progress remains human. \u2026Its regulations classify risks, set boundaries, prohibit surveillance dystopias, and affirm that some technologies, however efficient, have no place in a democratic society. Thus, Europe sets a precedent: a civilization where machines are not above the law, and where the digital world adheres to the same moral imperatives as the physical one.<\/p><p>\u201cAI systems learn, decide, recommend, and exclude \u2014 sometimes without anyone understanding why. Europe refuses this opacity. It demands transparency, explicability, and accountability \u2014 principles that seem philosophical, but are deeply political. What is at stake is the very notion of justice. In tomorrow\u2019s world, a decision to grant a loan, assign a school, detect a crime, or prescribe a treatment may be made by a machine. The EU reminds us that a decision is only legitimate if it can be explained, challenged, and appealed. It affirms that freedom begins where comprehension begins. Elsewhere, AI is seen as a lever of supremacy. In Europe, it is \u2014 or should be \u2014 viewed as a means to serve the common good.\u201d<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-america-as-a-check-amp-balance-on-europe-amp-vice-versa\"><strong>America As A Check &amp; Balance On Europe, &amp; Vice-Versa<\/strong><\/h2><p>The issues raised by Attali, Bria and Bratton are being debated the world over as AI penetrates every society. Each is right in their own way. To stall when the U.S. and China are accelerating as a strategic objective, bolstered by immense resources and political will, is to fall so inexorably behind that catching up will be impossible. Yet, the more AI in the mold of the tech superpowers is firmly established, the harder it will be to ever make course corrections and challenge systemic hegemony.<\/p><p>The wise position, as in so much else, would be to not settle on zero-sum convictions but value the creative tension in their opposition. Technological advances, and the risks they always pose, are part and parcel of human becoming. But, so, too, \u201cwithholding from becoming\u201d is what makes and keeps us human when the implications and consequences are unclear, but clear enough to raise reasonable concerns.<\/p><p>To date, a kind of division of labor appears to have evolved between relatively young America\u2019s innovative impulse, always conquering new frontiers as the first mover, and Europe\u2019s precautionary instinct cultivated throughout its long past of triumphs and catastrophes.<\/p><p>Diminishing this duality by more evenly sharing each other\u2019s attributes would benefit both. Europe needs America to spur the unleashing of its strangled innovative potential and cannot serve as a counterweight unless it does so. America needs Europe to question and constrain the no-holds-barred hubris bent on moving fast and breaking things without considering how and where the pieces will scatter.<\/p><p>Together, they constitute a necessary check and balance on each other as the global center of gravity shifts East, where an altogether new set of challenges awaits.<\/p>\n          <div class=\"eos-subscribe-push\">\n          \n            <a target=\"https:\/\/shop.noemamag.com\/?utm_source=BottomCTA&utm_medium=website\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.noemamag.com\/?utm_source=BottomCTA&utm_medium=website\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Enjoy the read? 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