Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate

Summary

Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank, said Europeans face a choice: avoid AI and lose out on growth, or adopt it and depend on tools built in the US and China. The article notes that the AI safety debate that has erupted in recent days could make that choice moot, since the technology would affect the continent regardless if the worst scenarios occur, though experts disagree on how likely those are.