Vice President JD Vance delivers a speech during the plenary session of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris on Feb. 11, 2025. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
"We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship," Vance said Tuesday.
Vance also pushed for a "deregulatory flavor" to emerge at the conference while cautioning against the pitfalls of "excessive regulation" that could hamper a transformative industry. He also vowed that the U.S. would back pro-growth AI policies.
"We believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just as it’s taking off, and we’ll make every effort to encourage pro-growth AI policies and I’d like to see that deregulatory flavor making its way into a lot of the conversations at this conference," he said.
Other world leaders who attended the AI Action Summit include French President Emmanuel Macron, Indian Prime Minister Shri Modi and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing.
Vance also issued a warning to other foreign governments about "tightening the screws" on U.S. tech companies with international footprints, claiming the Trump administration would not tolerate such limitations. He also cautioned against working with adversaries who have "weaponized A.I. software to rewrite history, surveil users and censor speech."
Vance said Tuesday that the U.S. will block such efforts, and ensure that American AI and chip technology is protected from theft and misuse.
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Vice President JD Vance’s comments coincide with some recent actions from the administration of President Donald Trump to advance AI in the U.S.
"I would also remind our international friends here today that partnering with such regimes — it never pays off in the long term," Vance said.
While Vance said that the U.S. wants to partner with other nations on this front, Macron said Europe could take a "third way" approach in AI innovation and not rely on either the U.S. or China. Macron also called for enhanced "international governance" on AI policy.
"We want a fair and open access to these innovations for the whole planet," Macron said.
Vance’s comments coincide with some recent actions from the Trump administration to advance AI in the U.S.
In January, Trump unveiled a new $500 billion AI infrastructure project called Stargate, a datacenter joint venture between investment holding company Softbank, and tech companies OpenAI and Oracle that Trump labeled the "largest AI infrastructure project in history."
The project includes an initial investment of $100 billion that is slated to grow to $500 billion over Trump’s term in office, and will build "colossal" data centers in the U.S. to power AI.
The Associated Press and Fox News’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
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