At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance articulated a positive vision for American leadership in technology—one that is more innovative than the European Union’s, more aligned with American values than Big Tech’s, and more impervious to the Chinese Communist Party.
Addressing these three audiences, Vance put their artificial intelligence mismanagement on notice.
The European Union
Vance’s message to Europe was clear: Replace a regressive overemphasis on AI safety with a focus on AI opportunity.
“This doesn’t mean … that all concerns about safety go out the window,” he acknowledged, but that excessive risk-aversion stifles innovation and fuels ideological censorship.
Vance cited the EU’s Digital Services Act as a prime example,…
