Frontier lab money is being showered theough proxy funds all over Europe to create new think tanks with young researchers carrying exhalted titles and self styling as “AI experts”, pushing this ridiculous “Middle Powers” narrative. This is in fact just vassalage with better br…
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Cristina Caffarra
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Economist, antitrust expert, econ/tech policy commentator, keynote speaker, convener CEPR Competition RPN, EscapeForward podcaster and conference host/ producer, Hon.Prof. UCL, DG Grow Fellow 2026, founder/lead EuroStack Industry Initiative
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“Middle Power Leverage” is Vassalage with Better Branding open.substack.com
Build Our Own Compute, or Europe’s AI Takeup will be a Huge Transfer of Wealth escapeforward.substack.com
Build Our Own Compute, or Europe’s AI Takeup will be a Huge Transfer of Wealth open.substack.com
“AI Poses an Existential Risk to Humanity” – TAKE 2 with Shaoul Sussman escapeforward.substack.com
“AI Poses an Existential Risk to Humanity” – TAKE 2 with Shaoul Sussman substack.com
European Regulators Want a Say on “Pacing the Frontier” – Do We Understand the Game? Let’s Stay Focused on Building escapeforward.substack.com
European Regulators Want a Say on “Pacing the Frontier” – Do We Understand the Game? Let’s Stay Focused on Building substack.com
AI Sovereignty is Stack Control, not Weight-of-Origin Fetishism escapeforward.substack.com
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“We urge you to urge us to stop”. Loved discussing this “second coming” of the frontier lab’s “regulate us please” with @ShaoulSussman, who was Director of Litigation at the @FTC when the same request went around first time…. Link here to #EscapeForward podcast:
“We urge you to urge us to stop”. Loved discussing this “second coming” of the frontier lab’s “regulate us please” with @ShaoulSussman, who was Director of Litigation at the @FTC when the same request went around first time…. Link here to #EscapeForward podcast:
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A lot of nonsense has flooded into Europe from “AI Maximalists” funded by opaque Bay Area foundations (“Europe must beg for access to LLMs!”). Europe (already a digital colony) needs to ignore & build more of its own compute, or we’ll preside over a massive wealth transfer as AI adoption increases.
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