Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate
THE SO WHAT
Europe’s focus on downstream consumer protections leaves a gap at the frontier-model layer—Lagarde’s “shut it down or move forward” framing exposes that tension. If you operate in the EU, expect more rules on deployment and use before there’s clarity on how frontier development itself is governed.
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