Turns out the EU was right all along with the AI act. They've been adopting a well-deserved "told you so" stance lately:

> "In my view, the EU has already legislated for exactly this scenario: it is called the AI Act," said Michael McNamara, an Irish European Parliament lawmaker, who's the co-lead of the Parliament's group monitoring AI.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-response-ai-extinction-wa...

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the_optimist 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The EU is not leading anything. They may as well just commit to becoming a subsistence agricultural society with EPCOT heirlooms on display.

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vrganj 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If the rest of the world follows them on regulations they've thought through before anyone else, then I don't know what you would call that other than leading? Like, definitionally that's what leading is.

It's interesting you're so derisive of actual, pragmatic leadership, of y'know deciding how we as a society will relate to new technologies - not just unthinkingly building gadgets.

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