Fuck AI

That is why Europe needs to invest in true tech sovereignty and not LLMs because LLMs are honestly a dead-end that will only produce useless results. They need to shore up open source projects, OS, infrastructure, sustainable manufacturing, and companies that can provide useful/productive services. I also think that figuring out how to extend the lifetime of already existing tech in a fruitful way...Would be a great route too, permacomputing could be a good avenue to pursue. To cut down reliance on producing a steady stream of components. Instead, creating parts with long-term usability and repairability in mind.

This will reduce and remove the reliance on USA technology, making them powerless in the European space.

Eh, I still take Europe's situation over the tech hellscape of the USA right now...If I'm totally honest. It's so cursed here.

You could look at it that way. When I look at it, I see the leader walking down a bad path and those trailing behind still have the chance to take a different path. Just because the US ran "ahead" doesn't mean the world should follow them off a cliff, even if they are screaming "wow, these AI waifus are so cool". Much of AI isn't explicitly progress, just change that has been framed as progress through the use of propaganda. If it's a regressive change, not moving fast could actually result in the EU getting ahead, like a reckless rock climber picking a bad line and falling back down to the last anchor while a careful climber avoids that route.