The Cognitive Revolution · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Anton Likht foresees a future where most countries will be disempowered by the AI age, even as quality of life generally improves. He suggests that Europe, due to its economic scale and control over the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, could negotiate a 'compute for access' deal with American hyperscalers.
“In short, he believes that most of the world will be quite disempowered, even as quality of life probably continues to improve.”
“And while there's little that most countries can do about this, Europe, in particular, he believes, given their economic scale and control of AML and the broader semiconductor manufacturing tooling supply chain, should have enough power to reach a compute for access deal, whereby Europe allows American hyperscalers to build data centers in Europe, in exchange for promises of continued access to frontier AI capabilities.”