The world has changed, but the EU acts like the solutions that used to work will continue to work in the future. Neither regulating limits to AI nor waiting for Trump's term to end will solve the underlying problem.<p>First, Trump's rise in the US is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every country in Europe has its own right-wing, anti-globalization, pro-nativist parties, and in almost all countries their power has grown. Globalization decreased economic friction, but not evenly--there were winners and losers. The winners were the professional class who could sell their services to a global market. The losers were the labor class who saw their jobs outsourced and who had to pay more to the professionals they needed (doctors, teachers, etc.). The result was Trump.<p>US policies will moderate as Trump's failures pile up, but we're never going back to the globalist, "citizens of the world" consensus of the 2000s.<p>Second, (and ironically), globalization has given leverage to high-agency individuals to amass more power than previously possible. Billionaires are exerting influence (Musk, obviously, but also Gates, Bezos, Marc Benioff, Bloomberg, Koch brothers, etc.) not just because they have money, but because money can influence more people through globalized businesses. Social media is the obvious vector, but even a business like Starbucks has influence by how they set labor trends.<p>Moreover, authoritarians like Putin are only constrained by hard power, not by international institutions. And ironically, the whole point of international institutions is to decrease investment in hard power! The result is that people like Putin can do whatever they want.<p>It is obvious that globalization, as currently structured, has failed. But no one (to my mind) has yet proposed a better model. The left wants to keep globalization and tinker around the edges; the right wants to tear it all down and retreat to autarchy.<p>Eventually, the world will enter a more stable equilibrium. Whoever can see that new equilibrium can prepare for it or even influence how it comes about. Anyone got any ideas?