Europe must not fail when it comes to artificial intelligence – Stefan Mey

Can you name just one successful social network that comes from Europe? No? Let’s try it the other way around: What are the first five letters that come to mind when you hear the word “data protection”? Correct: the GDPR! Planned as a successful product and partly as an export product all over the world, this unwieldy set of rules was tinkered with for years, only to end up with an administrative experiment that was toothless in many places.