[nekitamo]

You can protect human rights without stifling progress. It's not a "pick one of the above" situation.

The EU can and should reform many parts of its sclerotic laws and bureaucracies. Whether it can do so before it becomes a subservient puppet state which serves as a battleground for competing powers remains to be seen.

[cess11]

The usian 'frontier' "AI" corporations are involved in severe human rights abuses and war crimes.

I'm not so sure the ideal should be to substitute for those.