A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency

A speculative thought-experiment warns the continent could pay a heavy price for lagging behind the US

It’s 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 “restructured” 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.