In Spiked, Fraser Myers digs into a grim report by Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank and former prime minister of Italy, describing the vast economic threats facing Europe. Of great concern is the growing competitiveness gap between the U.S. and the continent. “Without radical economic reform…EU member states will suffer from stagnant living standards, technological backwardness and geopolitical impotence,” warns Myers.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


