Escape Forward: Connecting dots beyond the antitrust island
Escape ForwardAntitrust has thrived in the shadows for decades as a technocracy, a church with its own rituals, a lobbyfest pretending to be science. But it is an economic policy tool working alongside others. After a lifetime as antitrust expert economist & one of the original proponents of the “more economic approach” in Europe, Cristina Caffarra discusses with friends in policy and academe why we need to esc... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 14 | Founded | a year ago |
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Cristina Caffarra is joined by former FTC litigation director Shaoul Sussman to unpack the renewed push to regulate frontier AI. They explore whether concerns over AI safety are also serving the interests of powerful AI companies, the growing challen... more
In this episode of Escape Forward, Cristina Caffarra speaks with Shahin Vallée about Europe’s economic and geopolitical choices at a moment of growing pressure. They discuss productivity, AI, industrial policy, China, the transatlantic relationship a... more
Cristina Caffarra speaks with Yariv Adan, founder of ellipsis Ventures and former Google AI leader, about why he believes AI will expand human potential by making intelligence widely accessible and accelerating scientific and economic progress. They ... more
Cristina Caffarra in conversation with Andreas Liebl on the way AI FOMO on “god-like” LLM frontier models is being weaponized in Europe to push US tech economic and geopolitical dominance, alongside the campaign to kill the European sovereignty movem... more
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