After mentioning “the good company” and “the free wine”, JD Vance changed very quickly during his speech at the top of the AI in Paris this Tuesday.
Monday, February 10 and Tuesday, February 11, the 2025 artificial intelligence summit was held in Paris. The opportunity to bring together many players in the sector and great political figures from around the world. Back in the White House since January 20, Donald Trump had not made the trip, preferring to send his vice-president, J. D. Vance. The ex-military has indeed converted into new technologies before becoming the right arm of Donald Trump. After having already pointed out on Monday for having left the dinner organized at the Élysée Palace when the Chinese Deputy Prime Minister took the floor, J. D. Vance held this Tuesday a particularly offensive speech at the Grand Palais.
All smiles, the man dressed in a blue jacket and a red tie started gently, saying that he made the trip from the United States “for good company and for free wine”. What sketch a slight smile on his audience. But good humor will have hardly lasted. In the process, the American vice-president strongly criticized any regulation of artificial intelligence, not hesitating to speak of censorship. “We invite your countries to work with us and follow our model,” said JD Vance, of which France Inter echoes. Before preventing Europeans: “However, the Trump administration is disturbed by the fact that certain foreign governments seem to want to tighten the screw against large American technological companies. America does not accept and will not accept this.”
“We need international regulatory plans that promote the creation of AI technologies instead of suffocating it,” he said, reports Le Figaro. Faced with her warnings, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, maintained the CAP, defending the will of the EU to do differently: “We must have our own European approach to artificial intelligence. Too much Often, I heard that we should copy what others do and run after them. An end of the top under tension. The United States has also left without signing the final declaration calling for transparent, but also inclusive artificial intelligence.