3. Europe's AI Challenge

Can Europe end its reliance on US and Chinese tech companies before it's too late?

Europe is waking up to the risks of over-relying on US and Chinese technology. Misha Glenny explores the challenges and importance of 'digital sovereignty' - and whether it's too late for Europe to catch up.

In this third episode, Misha Glenny reveals how Europe's pension funds are key to tech innovation - and how they invest far more in the US tech giants than the continent's own start-ups.

He also hears how China managed to end its dependency on US tech at the start of the millennium - and the risks facing Europe if it fails to do the same.

GUESTS:

Scott Singer, a fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Parmy Olson, journalist and author of Supremacy: AI, ChatGpt and The Race that Will Change the World

Marietje Schaake, former Dutch MEP and current fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center at the Institute for Human-Centered AI

Presenter: Misha Glenny
Producer: Ben Carter
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Studio mix: James Beard
Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown