The vice president said the Trump administration is open to collaboration on artificial intelligence but would reject heavy regulation and ideological bias.
Addressing world leaders in Paris on Feb. 11, Vice President JD Vance vowed the United States would remain a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and would reject ideological bias and global attempts to regulate the emerging technology.
“I’m not here this morning to talk about AI safety, which was the title of this conference a couple of years ago. I’m here to talk about AI opportunity,” Vance said as he began his remarks before the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit.
Vance said it’s the view of the Trump administration that efforts to regulate AI would primarily benefit established developers while “paralyzing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations.”
The vice president proceeded to lay out four guiding principles of how the Trump administration views and approaches AI: That the United States will be a global leader in AI development; that excessive regulation could hinder the industry; that AI must be free from ideological bias and censorship; and that the administration would favor integrating AI into the workforce to increase productivity but not replace human workers.
Many global leaders are seeking frameworks to control AI’s uses and applications.
The European Union has already begun to implement its Artificial Intelligence Act, which describes regulated and prohibited risk levels for certain AI uses and requires general-purpose AI model developers to provide the EU with technical models for their models.
Among the prohibited applications described under the EU law are the use of AI for assessing the risks of certain individuals committing crimes; inferring a person’s group affiliations, religious and political views, and sex life or sexual orientation for non-law enforcement purposes; and social scoring individuals or groups based on their behavior or personal traits.
Nearly 60 nations, as well as the EU and the African Union Commission, also signed a declaration at the Paris AI summit, calling for “sustainable and inclusive artificial intelligence.”
The declaration—which the United States and the UK have not signed—calls for its signatories to affirm support for AI development that’s “open to all, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, in compliance with international frameworks.”
By Ryan Morgan
