Hoffman: Precautionary regulation causes Europe to lag the US and China
Reid Hoffman · Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off · Jan 29, 2025 · at 38:13
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and author of 'Superagency', discusses AI policy and explains why European regulatory habits stifle technological development compared to the US and China.
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“The problem with most people's default modes of regulation, including a lot of regulators and including a lot of European regulators is you say, well, our job is to protect bad things from happening. And by the way, the simplest way to do that is to prevent anything from happening, right? And so you really massively slow everything down, which means that you know, disadvantage your own innovators, your own industry. It's part of the reason why the tech industry You know, tends to be evolving very fast from the US and from China and not as much from Europe because of that kind of mindset approach.”
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