Preparing Europe and the world for transformative AI

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have just found out that @arqfoundation lists their furry staff should lyra be listed on indev
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🧵 My July book picks: 1. The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 2. Europe 2031: What getting AI wrong means for us 3. The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
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if I didn't already have a job, i'd apply for this one
Europe doesn’t produce enough breakthrough innovations. We are hiring 2 Full-stack Policy Entrepreneurs to fix that. We are offering €1000 euros for successful referrals. Here’s why🧵: arq.foundation/careers/break…
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Europe doesn’t produce enough breakthrough innovations. We are hiring 2 Full-stack Policy Entrepreneurs to fix that. We are offering €1000 euros for successful referrals. Here’s why🧵: arq.foundation/careers/break…
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The only way to get 'Sovereign AI' right is process of elimination: can't build a $500b moonshot, shouldn't gamble your economy on America's good graces, mustn't fall for anti-AI cope. On @80000hours, we discussed what's left: compute deals, allied scale, and messy geopolitics.
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All systems go for @arqfoundation!🚀 Proud to join Arq’s advisory board & help tend Europe’s tech tree of tomorrow — together!🤝 ▶️ arq.foundation/research/prep… Digest my Arq launch remarks.🙏 ▶️ au.civic.ai/p/tending-europe… Learn about #CivicAI.🌱 ▶️ civic.ai/ #LLAP🖖
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It was wonderful to have MEP Vasconcelos speak at Arq's launch event, alongside remarks from @Yoshua_Bengio and @audreyt. Ana is a defender of freedom and progress, and seems AGI-pilled. Europe needs more politicians like her!
Arq’s mission is to prepare Europe for transformative AI An urgent mission in these exceptional times that requires the resolve and unity the EU showed during the COVID crisis. Thrilled to have been a part of @arqfoundation ‘s inaugural event.
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Arq’s mission is to prepare Europe for transformative AI An urgent mission in these exceptional times that requires the resolve and unity the EU showed during the COVID crisis. Thrilled to have been a part of @arqfoundation ‘s inaugural event.
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👏it's not just about access and compute 👏 While both are important, AI for Science faces many other bottlenecks as well, like datasets, validation and regulatory hurdles! sciencebusiness.net/news/sov…
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Treat yourself to the two hour podcast this Sunday if you haven't. You won't regret it. Huge congrats to the team that produced this. By far the most effective effort to communicate the urgency of now on European AI strategy I have come across.
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A must read (or must listen): Europe2031.ai . A dystopian but unfortunately surprising convincing of what could happen if Europe does not catch up on AI. It moved my prior. (and it is, despite the gloomy conclusions) a fun read.
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Europe has a lot to lose in the current AI race, and it's worth examining how threats to middle-power sovereignty can result in unsafe outcomes. Such scenarios help illustrate why Europe must invest in AI initiatives that can either leapfrog the current frontier or offer critical components like safety and reliability.
I'm deeply concerned about Europe's future on AI. One of my biggest worries is our erosion of agency, our ability to stay relevant and fight for our values in a future where AI becomes a civilisationally important technology. Myself, @DadaJudith , @bakkermichiel and others have written a scenario to outline a potential future we worry we are on track towards. europe2031.ai/ Every optimistic and realistic path I can see for Europe runs through a central node - one where Europe has more leverage, more importance and more say. One where Europe grows more, builds more where it matters, and takes ownership over its resilience. Europe 2031 is a five-year scenario of the continent's slide into irrelevance: how AI is driving it, and what can still be done. The co-authors are researchers, scientists and investors who have advised European leaders, co-authored national AI strategies, built and funded these systems from the inside. We have no interest in hype and we deeply care about this continent. Europe 2031 ends with five concrete recommendations: - drastically more compute on European soil - an AI middle-power coalition - labour-market reforms - a bold position in robotics and industrial AI - and a positive vision of what AI can do for society. Europe can still change course if it finds the political will and the courage to engage in the most ambitious political and economic agenda the continent has undertaken in peacetime. I encourage you to read it if you have the time:
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Disturbing, informative, and plausible. Essential reading, especially for anyone who can help steer EU technology and growth policy.
Most of Europe has not yet absorbed what AI is about to do to us. The few who have are not saying it loudly enough. We wrote Europe 2031: a five-year scenario of the continent's slide into irrelevance, how AI is driving it, and what can still be done to change course.
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Co-Author of Europe 2031 @AlexTPet says if Europe magicked a frontier lab onto the continent right now our regulatory environment would kill it: "If Anthropic moved to Europe today... within a month like our regulatory system would be crippling them and they'd be outcompeted." "You need like 10 years or five years of reforms to make the European tech sector able to grow." "You need to be like strategically deciding as a government: these are the technologies that are going to be like super important in 10 years time".
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I don't think people in Europe (and the UK) are taking our technological (and therefore economic) divergence seriously enough. A few disparate datapoints: 1. Our compute is woefully behind; three American labs each operate more AI compute than all of Europe combined 2. OpenAI has paused Stargate UK (indefinitely); our energy costs and regulatory environment are actively driving frontier infrastructure away 3. Mistral reportedly considering acquisition by SpaceX; Europe’s most valuable AI company is struggling to get the necessary resources to compete 4. FluidStack cancelled plans to build in France and moved HQ from London to the US; a company founded in the UK, that signed an MOU with the French government, chose American capital and contracts 5. Project Glasswing launched as a coalition of US firms - the most powerful AI model ever built was shared with Americans first and Europeans are still negotiating access 6. A Trump executive order gives the US government up to 30 days of exclusive federal access before a model's public release, and a say in which 'trusted partners' can use it first (American strategic interests are being baked into the architecture of who gets access to frontier AI, and when) Those who wrote Europe 2031 are some of the few people taking this seriously. Well worth a read.
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This was a good post though I think it is interesting how much vivid science fiction scenarios have become the new default format for policy papers & financial analysis for AI.
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The returns to having a dynamic economy are going to sharply rise. (From europe2031.ai/)
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Ok. Finished reading it. The story of Europe's failure in AI is turned into a gripping story (congratulations to the authors on finding this way to write it) and an outstanding SHOUT for action. I disagree with many things in this scenario (e.g. ASML cannot be used for leverage, I am afraid: all the EUV tech is San Diego-based (Cymer), and the chips are Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc.) But the key insight is correct: (1) AI is THE critical technology of the future, and (2) Europe is falling badly behind on AI and running out of options. Both the economic and strategic consequences are brutal. We will write a reaction in Silicon Continent. In the meantime, please do read it. europe2031.ai/#timeline
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This is superb work. Europe needs to stare into the abyss on this: AI is happening; what happens if Europe does nothing? This piece is the best thing I’ve seen that brings the consequences to life.
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