Vice -President JD Vance told European and Asian leaders in Paris on Tuesday that the Trump government accepted an aggressive America first approach to the race of the race to dominate all building blocks of artificial intelligence and warned Europeans to dismantle the regulations and to to come with Washington.
During his first foreign trip since his appointment, Mr. Vance used his opening address at an AI top meeting organized by France and India to describe his vision of a coming era of American technological dominance. Europe, he said, would be forced to choose between the use of American designed and manufactured technology or façade cladding with authoritarian competitors-a non-damn reference to China that would use the technology to the detriment.
“The Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI systems in the US are built with American design and produced chips,” he said, adding that “only because we are the leader does not mean we want or have to do it only.”
But he said that for Europe to become what he clearly presents as a junior partner, it must eliminate the much of his digital regulatory structure – and much of the police of the internet for what the governments define as disinformation.
For Mr Vanc, who is a week -long tour, he will bring him in addition to the safety conference of Munich, Europe's most important meeting of leaders, ministers of foreign and defense and others, the speech was clearly intended as a warning shot. It largely silenced the hall on a wing of the Grand Palais in the center of Paris. Leaders who are used to talking about 'guardrails' for emerging artificial intelligence applications and 'equity' to ensure that the technology is available and is comfortable for disadvantaged population groups, neither of those sentences of Mr. VANCE heard.
He spoke only a few hours after President Trump had set new 25 percent rates for foreign steel, so that trade agreements with Europe and other regions are essentially denied. The speech of Mr. VANCE, precisely compiled and supplied with emphasis, seemed like an indication of the tone of Mr Trump's national security leaders who intends to go to Europe this week.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseeth will talk about Ukraine on Wednesday with European leaders, and State Secretary Marco Rubio arrives in Munich when the conference is opened at the end of the week. That session is likely to be dominated by competing American and European views on negotiating the war in Ukraine.
With a short background in Silicon Valley and risk capital, Mr. Vance is the image of a new generation of Republicans who were searched in the first ideology of Mr Trump. After Mr. VANCE left the hall, did not stay to hear the European reaction, the United States and Great Britain refused to sign the communiqué of the top.
Mr. VANCE started his speech with a direct reference to the AI Safety Summit, held in Bletchley Park, the Grand Estate in Great Britain, where code breakers cracked the German Enigma codes in the Second World War. That conference ended with a terrible warning for “serious, even catastrophic damage, intentionally or unintentionally, as a result of the most important possibilities of these AI models.” Twenty -eight countries, including the US, promised “to work together in an inclusive way to ensure human focused, reliable and responsible AI”
Mr. Vance did his utmost to separate from that top and the speech of his predecessor, Kamala Harris. “I am not here this morning to talk about AI safety,” he said. “I am here to talk about AI opportunities,” warning that the reaction of America to AI's challenge can no longer be “self-aware” or “risk time”.
“The AI-TUKTING will not be won by Handwring about safety,” he said.
At a time when Mr. Trump dissolves government councils and units that chase on disinformation, much of it from Russia, China and Iran, Mr. Vance claimed that American technology companies still had to deal with “mass regulations” in Europe.
He did not propose to delete all such rules, but said: “It is one thing to prevent a predator from hunting a child on the internet, and it is something completely different to prevent an adult man or woman from having access to opinions Of which the government thinks it is wrong information. “
Of course that is exactly what many federal employees charge in Washington, Mr Trump does because he forbid all references to dei – diversity, equity and inclusion – stripped of government websites and government employees for prohibiting their favorite personal pronouns put in their signatures.
At the same time, Mr. Vance warned of how “hostile foreign opponents AI software have armed to rewrite the history, surveillance users and censor speech.” But he did not explain how to follow or solved that problem.
European officials knew about what would come, even if they didn't know Mr. Vance would be so blunt. On the opening day of the conference, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke about the need to simplify European regulations. He has announced more than $ 100 billion in private investments in France on AI Technologies and the power to generate them. That is a huge figure for France, but a fraction of what the private sector spends in the United States, and what China and its state -state companies, and startups commit.
Mr. VANCE came to the heart of a central dispute that will probably increase in the coming year: the European Union regulates technology companies much more powerful than the United States.
The Bloc's Digital Services Act, adopted in 2022, is intended to combat incorrect information and forcing social media companies to monitor their platforms more aggressively and to moderate for illegal content – or to risk billions of dollars in fines. The Digital Markets Act, also adopted in 2022, offers European supervisors widely authorized to force the largest online gatekeepers to change their business practices, to prevent tech giants from promoting users and promoting more competition.
Europe has also tried to be paramount in regulating AI by insisting to increase the level of supervision and try to limit the use of technology. But with the United States and China who race ahead in AI development, Mr. Macron has urged Europe to relieve innovation and give priority to regulations.
Regulators in Brussels have focused on American technology companies with several studies and fines. Apple and Google have confronted billions of fines about problems such as unpaid taxes and preferential treatment in search results. Meta has been accused of violating European competitive rules and of having insufficient guarantees to prevent election design information. Last month, regulators opened an investigation into the spread of illegal content.
The United States have argued that Europe's approach is unfairly focused on American Tech Titans. Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, called on Mr Trump to defend American technology companies against what he called European 'censorship', and to demand that the European Union is no longer fine.
“We are going to work together with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that go to American companies,” said Mr. Zuckerberg last month, shortly after he announced that Meta would end the actual control program.
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, who spoke immediately after Mr. Vance on Tuesday, did not strongly confront her predecessor – who had already left the Chamber. Following Mr. Macron recognized them for themselves that “we should make it easier, and we have to cut bureaucracy, and we will do that.”
“Too often I hear that Europe is too late for the race that the United States and China have already improved,” she said. “I don't agree with that. The AI race is not nearly over yet. “Mrs von der Leyen said that Europe wanted to invest in $ 200 billion in AI in the coming years.
But she also defended the regulatory approach of the European Union and suggested that there was a “clear European brand AI” that was aimed at “complex applications” that was cooperative, and which embraced an open-source approach, which means that the underlying Software widely shared.
“Yes, AI needs competition,” she said. “But AI also needs cooperation. And AI needs the trust of people and must be safe. '
Liz Alderman And Aurelien varieties Made reporting from the AI top in Paris.
