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The Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) represents everything that’s wrong with Europe’s approach to digital sovereignty
The EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package is supposed to jump-start Europe’s “sovereign AI” ambitions.
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The EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package is supposed to jump-start Europe’s “sovereign AI” ambitions. But due to fundamental misunderstandings about the technology behind ‘AI’ and the blind trust in Big Tech’s AI doomer and boomer narratives, it is more likely to instead hurt digital rights and the environment instead, and waste valuable public resources that should have been invested in actually increasing Europe’s digital resilience. The Cloud and AI Development (CADA) Act, a part of the Tech Sovereignty Package, adds up to an aggressive policy push to impose “European AI”.