Judith Dada on the Rise of the AfD

If Europe does indeed engage in a lab effort, it needs to be a Manhattan-style, ultra-ambitious, ultra well-funded effort because the the piece where it actually matters is being able to produce outcomes that are frontier. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Well, today's conversation goes deep on the challenges facing Germany and Europe. We start by talking about the stunning success of the alternative for Germany in the elections past Sunday in Sachsen-Anhalt and trying to understand why it is that so many Germans and so many Europeans and so many people across the democratic world are currently flogging to populist parties.

But we go more deeply into the ways in which the German economic and political model is in some ways falling apart and what it is that can be done about that. Judith Dada is the author of a fascinating viral paper and scenario called Europe 2031, which imagines what will happen to the European continent if it fails to catch up on tech and artificial intelligence. She is a German venture capitalist with origins in Nigeria, who is a senior partner at a large European venture capital fund and is now the co-CEO of Langdock, one of the leading European AI companies.

So we really went into how it is that Germany and Europe more broadly fell behind economically, had decades of economic stagnation, why it is that German car companies, for example, are in such trouble now, and then to talk about why it is that uh uh being a leader in tech and in artificial intelligence is going to be non-negotiable for any country that wants to be affluent and wants to be able to stand on its own in the international sphere over the coming decades, and why it is that this is going to be so difficult for Germany and for Europe to catch up on. Judith, however, ultimately remains retains her skepticism that the boat has not yet sailed. I'm making all of this episode accessible to all listeners, so you're not going to hit an annoying paywall at the end of this conversation. But please support this podcast.

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