{"id":23596,"date":"2026-06-20T10:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/as-the-us-and-china-surge-ahead-is-europe-sleepwalking-into-ai-disaster\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:37:41","slug":"as-the-us-and-china-surge-ahead-is-europe-sleepwalking-into-ai-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/as-the-us-and-china-surge-ahead-is-europe-sleepwalking-into-ai-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A burgeoning genre of fictional AI doomsday scenarios says lagging behind on the technology could threaten the continent\u2019s sovereignty<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies \u201crestructured\u201d their workflows around AI and fired people, while EU workers went on long lunch breaks and handed over administrative tasks to the AI model Claude.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/20\/europe-sleepwalking-ai-disaster-us-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b3962d03da5e05ce790c02cf6de8f24dc3b59578\/599_0_2835_2268\/master\/2835.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8336ba341e8bca9208af6edd22e89962\" title=\"As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster?\" \/>A burgeoning genre of fictional AI doomsday scenarios says lagging behind on the technology could threaten the continent\u2019s sovereignty<br \/>\nIt\u2019s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces.<br \/>\nThe US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies \u201crestructured\u201d their workflows around AI and fired people, while EU workers went on long lunch breaks and handed over administrative tasks to the AI model Claude. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A burgeoning genre of fictional AI doomsday scenarios says lagging behind on the technology could threaten the continent\u2019s sovereignty It\u2019s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces. The US ploughed vast sums into datacentres and the EU did not. China built robots and Europe did not. American companies \u201crestructured\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/as-the-us-and-china-surge-ahead-is-europe-sleepwalking-into-ai-disaster\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}