While Brussels knits 400-page PDFs, Beijing is arming the economy with AI.
China doesn't debate, it acts. With its "AI Plus" strategy, it aims for 70% of intelligent agents integrated into the economy by 2027. Not 2040. Not "if conditions are met." 2027.
And Europe? We applaud the AI Act, the world's first regulatory framework. Bravo. But let's be honest: -Thousands of pages of rules. -Codes of good conduct. -Oversight bodies that haven't even been set up yet. -A bureaucracy that kills any hint of innovation in the cradle. The result?
While we draft guidelines on "model transparency," China is already building the AI economy.
While we over-regulate, others give themselves permission to dream and above all to execute.
-- The core issue -- Europe basks in a "human-centric" posture that sounds great at conferences. But without rapid execution, we risk becoming the notaries of the future, not its architects.
So let me ask you
Would you prefer a Europe that protects its values at the cost of a colossal economic loss, or a Europe that dares to act to stay in the race?
A few months ago, I wrote that Europe spends more time legislating about AI than innovating with it.
Today, Christine Lagarde is saying exactly the same thing: our sluggishness on AI is endangering the continent's economic future. When this message comes from the ECB, it means we've crossed an urgency threshold.
Meetings, scoping, compliance, dreams of sovereignty... but very few experiments, very few AI-native products, very few deep transformations of how we work.
Meanwhile, others are moving at full speed.
The impact is massive: if we don't change our relationship to risk, agility, and creation, we will remain consumers of technologies invented elsewhere. And this isn't a matter of European pride, it's a matter of economic dependency.
Europe doesn't lack talent. It lacks speed, permission to innovate, and a genuine building reflex. AI calls for less paperwork and more prototypes, shorter feedback loops, and augmented management.
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