At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
THE SO WHAT
If the dominant European AI question is control and human agency, expect procurement and regulation to skew toward systems with strong override, audit, and traceability features. For operators selling into Europe, “who’s in charge when it goes wrong?” is becoming a core product requirement, not a philosophical aside.
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