Europe’s path to AI leadership lies not in joining Silicon Valley’s race for artificial general intelligence – but in building reliable infrastructure and human-centric AI that serves European businesses and citizens, Eva Maydell, Member of the European Parliament, argues in her forceful DLD Future Hub talk.
“I don’t believe we necessarily need to be sucked in this power competition through AI”, Maydell says. “We can and must have our own European approach.”
Part of that approach is developing AI “that is not going to put humanity at risk”, Maydell promises. “We will keep it an instrument and not an agent… We need AI that serves our people, not AI that replaces them.”
Europe also aims for more autonomy through a series of AI Factories. “Instead of trying to personalize existing models while paying big platforms per token”, European companies will be able to build their own AI models, in their own language, Maydell says. “They can tune it to their own voice, and there will be no vendor lock-in. There will be no foreign data transfers.”
