The AI tsunami

Europe wants to regulate artificial intelligence. The United States wants to dominate it. China wants to industrialize it.

The EU AI Act is presented as a global ethical benchmark. But critics warn it could become a “digital Maginot Line” — protecting principles while quietly burdening European startups and advantaging American tech giants.

Meanwhile, in the public sector, countries like the UK and Canada are aggressively deploying AI to cut civil service headcounts and reduce costs. France remains cautious. Strategic prudence — or dangerous delay?

Beneath the regulatory debate, a deeper shift is underway: a coming “cognitive tsunami.” When expertise becomes instant, automated, and nearly free, what happens to lawyers, doctors, consultants, journalists — the entire architecture of knowledge professions?

When knowledge is abundant, scarcity moves elsewhere. Perhaps tomorrow’s value will no longer lie in information, but in presence. In empathy. In craftsmanship. In the physical and the human.

Is Europe building a moral framework for the future or engineering its own technological stagnation?