Founders’ takes: Why we need European AI employees

Founders’ takes is a new series featuring expert insights from tech leaders transforming industries with artificial intelligence. In this edition, Lucas Spreiter, founder of German startup Venta AI, shares his vision of AI employees.

Artificial intelligence is about to enable the most dramatic shift of the century: the transition from human labour to AI labour. In the coming years, businesses won’t just use AI as a tool — they’ll employ AI as real colleagues, handling critical workflows end-to-end.

That shift is inevitable. The real question is: whose employees will we be hiring? If Europe doesn’t catch up with the US and China and build its own AI employees, we could end up outsourcing a major chunk of our economic value creation — or as we Germans call it. Wertschöpfung: the very core of how we produce wealth.

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