Alex Petropoulos

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Alex Petropoulos (Arq Foundation): The Europe 2031 AI Scenario

Alex Petropoulos, chief of staff at Arq Foundation in Brussels, presents "Europe 2031," a scenario essay in the style of Situational Awareness/AI 2027 arguing that Europe has miscalibrated AI's pace, importance, and its own positioning, risking vassal status between the US and China in a coming compute crunch. He lays out building leverage — compute, semiconductors (ASML constrained by Dutch housing and grid), robotics, photonics, fusion — across a coalition of middle powers, and urges trade-offs like hosting US hyperscaler compute, labor reform, and a positive pro-AI narrative. He doubts a European frontier lab is likely (a 2-10% calibrated bet), calls sovereignty-by-procurement "worse software" citing Germany's botched migration, and points to the White House initially vetoing sharing of Mythos with European cyber agencies as an early signal of AI access politics.