Europe 2031: Speculative fiction about what Silicon Valley sees coming and Europe doesn’t. The story runs from DeepSeek to a 2031 where Europe has largely lost the ability to chart its own course.
- A fictional scenario framed as a policy warning: by 2031, Europe has lost meaningful agency over AI development, with the slide beginning as early as today, in June 2026.
- The compute gap is the spine of the argument. The US is building the data centers and infrastructure that AI runs on. Europe is not, and the piece includes an infographic making that disparity hard to ignore.
- Silicon Valley insiders writing policy fiction for European audiences is itself a political act. Worth reading critically, but the underlying dynamics they're pointing to are real enough to not wave away.
