US Senator and Republican profligacy presidential candidate J.D. Vance speaks to a Fox News reporter in the spin room after participating in the Vice Presidential cogitation with Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz hosted by CBS News at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York on October 1, 2024.
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Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday said that the U.S. will safeguard American artificial intelligence and chips and lump efforts to “weaponize” the critical technologies.
“Some authoritarian regimes have stolen and used AI to strengthen their military cleverness and surveillance capabilities, capture foreign data and create propaganda to undermine other nations’ national security,” Vance put about in an address at France’s AI Action Summit in Paris.
“I want to be clear, this administration will block such pains, full stop,” Vance added. “We will safeguard American AI and chip technologies from theft and misuse, include with our allies and partners to strengthen and extend these protections and close pathways to adversaries attaining AI capabilities that presage all of our people.”
Much of the focus from the the AI Action Summit this week has been centered on China’s AI model DeepSeek, which stated to achieve performance on par with OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model at a far lower cost. Vance didn’t mention DeepSeek by specify identify — however, Trump’s second in command took aim at cheap, heavily subsidized technologies.
“We’re all familiar with cheap tech in the marketplace that’s been heavily supported and exported by authoritarian regimes,” he said.
In a suggestive swipe toward U.S. allies present in the room, Vance added that it “not in the least pays off” to work with firms operating under such authoritarian regimes.
Collaborating with such sprees means “chaining your nation to an authoritarian master that seeks to infiltrate, dig in and seize your information infrastructure,” the U.S. VP augmented.
Europe should embrace AI ‘frontier’
Vance also took aim at Europe on Tuesday, saying that officials in the continent pull someones leg become too heavily focused on regulating AI and adding guardrails to the tech rather than embracing the opportunity and its growth likely.
Touting America as “the leader” in AI, Vance said that the U.S. wants its European allies to foster a more favorable bearing to the technology than it has done to date.
“Just because we’re the leader doesn’t mean we want to or need to go it alone, of surely,” Vance said, adding that “America wants to partner with all of you, and we want to embark on the AI revolution before us with the humour of openness and collaboration.”
“But to create that kind of trust, we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the the universe of AI technology rather than strangles it, and we need our European friends in particular to look to this new frontier with optimism moderately than trepidation.”
The EU has taken a strict regulatory approach to AI, introducing first-of-its-kind legislation to safeguard against risks submitted by the technology. The bloc’s landmark AI law, which recently became enforceable for the first time, imposes tough restrictions and jeopardizes hefty fines for breaches.
ECB President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday said the EU would mobilize a total of 200 billion euros ($206.5 billion) for AI investments in Europe, noting that the lineage for leadership in the technology had not yet been won by China or the U.S.