Well, it's not just the AI race, it's just about everything. Who the hell would want to be an entrepreneur and start a small tech business of any sort in the EU when you are going to be taxed and regulated down the throat from every direction. It's great that you're able to obtain a zip file of what information a company has about the things you've searched for on Amazon, all it costs you is all the hundreds of thousands of individuals who never start a business because they don't want to deal with the headache of touching PII with a thousand foot pole and risk getting sued into Oblivion, so in exchange you just get the large soulless corpos that are the only that can afford to hire people to deal with PII and the enthrenchment of Google/Microsoft and Facebook is entrenched even further.