@mfeilner i might escalate that to "everyone starves".

You would think the eu of all places would understand the food security implications of how farming equipment now works.

@mfeilner Of course national AI is a digital sovereignty risk. If AI access was shut down today, the fallout would be limited, that's true. Software development productivity would go down in orgs that have adopted AI already, but little more. That is very quickly changing though.

Take just cyber as an example: Today's AI models are already highly capable in the field. More than the median human bug finder. The upcoming rrality of the internet will be that any reachable endpoint will be hammered by AI vulnerability scanners. Controlled by criminals and state actors building initial access databases.

This is already possible today, with most production software having many critical vulnerabilities. It just wasn't economical for threat actors to engage with every possible target. It now is.

The flipside thereof is that security of median applications has to rise dramatically and be kept at that higher baseline level. *That* isn't possible at scale without strong AI.

Then there is also the economic effects of AI in software development. European companies without AI in their processes would have no chance of competing with US or Chinese ones that do. And software development is just the first of very likely many domains where the technology will cause strong productivity increases.

I agree with you on blockchain though. That is a solution in search of a problem. The technology is fascinating in any case.