At the recent AI Action Summit in Paris, Vice President JD Vance declared that artificial intelligence must remain “free from ideological bias and … not be co-opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship.”
But China’s rise as a global AI power poses serious challenges to Vance’s bold vision. Chinese companies under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party are quietly wiring digital authoritarianism into the Western tech stack.
Despite this threat, some Western governments and tech giants are pursuing ideological agendas in the form of “AI safety” that risk ceding moral and technological high ground to China in the AI race.
To reverse China’s digital creep and bolster Western technological supremacy, Europe and Big Tech should heed Vance’s admonition. Reject AI safetyism’s anti-Western social agendas and heavy-handed regulation…
