{"id":24992,"date":"2026-09-18T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/why-europe-has-been-absent-from-the-great-ai-safety-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:37:51","slug":"why-europe-has-been-absent-from-the-great-ai-safety-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/why-europe-has-been-absent-from-the-great-ai-safety-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent\u2019s central bank, Christine Lagarde, said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China.<\/p>\n<p>The great debate over AI safety that has erupted in recent days threatens to make the choice moot. If the worst scenarios come to bear \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/15\/could-ai-really-wipe-out-humanity-and-hijack-the-internet\">and experts have differing views on this<\/a> \u2013 then the technology will impact the continent regardless.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/18\/europe-ai-safety-debate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2e9edd48e364a364bf3ef4d3133154861cbb11c9\/133_0_6882_5504\/master\/6882.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=45a993c1b91cd2ca2442927d456c2750\" title=\"Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate\" \/>Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear<br \/>\nEurope\u2019s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent\u2019s central bank, Christine Lagarde, said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China.<br \/>\nThe great debate over AI safety that has erupted in recent days threatens to make the choice moot. If the worst scenarios come to bear \u2013 and experts have differing views on this \u2013 then the technology will impact the continent regardless. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear Europe\u2019s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent\u2019s central bank, Christine Lagarde, said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/why-europe-has-been-absent-from-the-great-ai-safety-debate\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24993,"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\/24992"}],"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=24992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}