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US Vice President JD Vance told Tuesday’s AI summit in Paris that excessive regulation would “kill a transformative industry just as it’s taking off”.
He insisted (apparently in response to DeepSeek, the low-budget Chinese challenger) that the US would remain the AI partner of choice for most countries and businesses, and that “the AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety”.
Vance then left without listening to speeches from the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen and France’s Emmanuel Macron, and declined to sign the conference’s final communiqué.
Yesterday the Democrat-leaning Brookings Institution in Washington launched a series of papers on AI safety “to move past Western-centric models, incorporating a more diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences”.
Seldom has progressive America seemed so out of step with its elected leaders.
