The American vice president, JD Vance, told Europeans on Tuesday that his “massive” regulations on artificial intelligence could strangle technology and rejected the moderation of content as “authoritarian censorship.”
In another sign of divergences in the governance of AI, the United States and Britain did not sign the final declaration of a summit of organized in France on “inclusive and sustainable artificial intelligence”, without saying why
The mood on AI has changed as technology is rooted, from a concern for security to geopolitical competence, while countries compete to nurture the next great AI giant.
When exposing the “United States first” agenda of the Trump administration, Vance said that the United States intended to continue being the dominant force in AI and firmly opposed the much more strict regulatory approach to the European Union. “We believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could end a transformative industry,” Vance said at the Summit of Executive Directors and Heads of State in Paris.
We firmly believe that AI must remain free of ideological biases and that the American AI will not be used as an authoritarian censorship tool. Vance criticized the “mass regulations” created by the EU digital services law, as well as the privacy standards in European line, known by the acronym GDPR, which according to him means endless legal compliance costs for smaller companies.
“Of course, we want to guarantee that the Internet is a safe place, but it is one thing to prevent a predator from taking advantage of a child on the Internet and a very different one is to prevent an adult man or woman from accessing an opinion that the government considers misinformation “, said.
European legislators approved last year the law of the block, the first comprehensive set of norms of the world that regulate this technology. Vance heads the US delegation at the Paris Summit.
Vance warning to China
Vance also seemed to point to China in a delicate time for the US technology sector. Last month, the Chinese Startup Depseek distributed a powerful model of artificial intelligence reasoning that, according to some, challenged the United States technological leadership that sent the actions of the American chip designer Nvidia to the abaja 17%.
“From CCTV to 5G teams, we are all familiar with cheap technology in the market that has been strongly subsidized and exported by authoritarian regimes,” said Vance.
But “associating with them means chaining their nation to an authoritarian master who seeks to infiltrate, entrenched and seize his information infrastructure,” he added. Vance did not mention Deepseek by name. There is no evidence that information could flow surreptitiously through Startup technology to the Chinese government, and the underlying code is available for use and visualization. However, some government organizations would have prohibited the use of Deepseek.
The EU will reduce bureaucracy
Macron said at the summit that he was in favor of reducing bureaucracy, but emphasized that a regulation was needed to guarantee trust in AI, or otherwise people would end up rejecting it. “We need a reliable,” he said.
Leyen also said that the EU would reduce the bureaucracy and invest more in AI. The United States and Britain did not immediately explain why they had not signed the statement of the AI summit, as evidenced by a published text, while at least 60 countries, including China, had done so.
The Vice Primer Chinese Minister, Zhang Guoqing, said at the summit that China was willing to work with other countries to safeguard security and share achievements in the field of artificial intelligence to build “a community with a shared future for humanity.”
A source close to the organizers said they were not surprised that the United States would not have signed, considering its position on regulation. A source of the British government mentioned concerns about the language that Britain could not change, and said that the approach agreed in The Paris Summit was “quite different” to the first Safety Summit of AI, which was organized by Great Britain in 2023.
“JD Vance’s speech makes it clear that US politics has now experienced unequivocal change,” said Russell Wald, executive director of the Stanford Institute for Artificial Intelligence focused on human being.
“Security is not going to be the main approach, but accelerated innovation and the belief that technology is an opportunity, and security is equal to regulation, regulation is the same to lose that opportunity.” Dario Amodei, Executive Director of Anthropic, competitor of Openai, who has sought to distinguish his work as more centered on security, said that the summit represented a “lost opportunity” to address the control chain controls, the safety risks of safety of the AI and the expected interruption of the labor market.
With Reuters information.
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