Europe facing unprecedented risk of being cut off from AI, Lagarde warns
Lagarde said Europe should expand computing capacity as AI could lift productivity by up to 4% over a decade.
- On Monday, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde urged Europe to become a producer of artificial intelligence technology to preserve autonomy and achieve efficiency gains needed to maintain its way of living.
- Europe currently imports most AI technology from the United States, leaving it vulnerable to potential access restrictions that could disrupt every sector, Lagarde said.
- Lagarde warned that "Europe already has too little data centre capacity to meet its own demand, and on current trends, that gap is projected to grow more than sixfold within a decade."
- Trust between Europe and the United States has been shaken by tariffs, Greenland demands, and troop withdrawals, while U.S. technology firms' borrowing needs in Europe drive up costs for local borrowers.
- Lagarde proposed developing AI models that are "good enough" for most tasks and run on European infrastructure, a strategy that could lift productivity by up to 4 per cent over a decade.
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Christine Lagarde sounded the alarm about Europe and the AI onslaught that threatens the old continent if it does not get ahead of its own development of Artificial Intelligence. Europe must develop its own artificial intelligence technology and invest heavily in building more data centers to reduce the risk of facing a possible cutoff of access to technologies from the US or China, the president of the European Central Bank has warned. Speaking…
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European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde warned the continent not to neglect progress; Germany said slowing down is not a “option”
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