Politicians, regulators and technology leaders gathered in Dublin this week for the AI Summit, one of the landmark events of the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU. The questions raised by the acceleration of the technology are real, and potentially existential. For Europe, the prospect of being left behind once more is particularly pressing after years in which the EU’s economic growth has stalled and slipped ever further behind the US and China.Then there is the looming prospect of mass job displacement and the social dislocation that could follow in its wake. Above all of this hovers the…