Dr. Mark Khater

This is an infrastructure problem.

And this is why we keep hearing the usage of the word artificial.

The artificial is the next industrial revolution.

I don't know if it is or it's not.

I don't really find any use of labeling things in that particular way.

But what we can see is artificial intelligence is becoming infrastructure.

It's impacting infrastructure.

You're talking about the usage of artificial intelligence alone, its usage of electricity globally will become the equivalent of what Germany or Japan or even Germany and Japan combined use in terms of electricity by 2030.

That's colossal.

That's massive.

That's going to have an impact on so many things.

So I think,

Europe, by reading the papers that are being published, by looking at the policies that they're trying to create, they're actually grasping clearly the idea that this is an infrastructure problem.

And I think recent events, global events, are actually teaching Europe, teaching the United Kingdom, that they need to stand on their own two feet when it comes to artificial intelligence because it is an infrastructure problem.

And yes, they might look like, and probably they are approaching it quite slowly, but it needs to be approached with a lot of wisdom.

And wisdom isn't a fast moving thing.

And I think we're actually seeing the disparity because AI is an incredibly fast moving technology.

And the wisdom of creating policy for infrastructure is a rather slow process.

And so we're looking here and going, ooh, there's a really big speed mismatch going on.

Yes, there is.