The German chancellor argues that shorter hours and high sick leave are hurting growth, as Europe’s largest economy struggles with stagnation, labor shortages and rising unemployment.
Merz is wasting time. It is now that Europe would need to invest massively in automation and the skills to develop it on their own. Once the US have a sufficiant gap, and have locked down copyright again, Europe will be incapable of closing the AI intelligence gap. Without a usable offer, nobody will use European AI which means there is no training data to develop their models, and no profits to finance development. Then Europe will be forever dependend on US technology, like any third world country that couldn’t close the technological gap to the West.
Merz is wasting time. It is now that Europe would need to invest massively in automation and the skills to develop it on their own. Once the US have a sufficiant gap, and have locked down copyright again, Europe will be incapable of closing the AI intelligence gap. Without a usable offer, nobody will use European AI which means there is no training data to develop their models, and no profits to finance development. Then Europe will be forever dependend on US technology, like any third world country that couldn’t close the technological gap to the West.