In 2023, world leaders and tech executives gathered in England for the AI Safety Summit, which was the first global conference on artificial intelligence. Two years later, the group reconvened in Paris under a different title: the AI Action Summit. Gone was the emphasis on safety. Lest there be any doubt, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance told the room: “The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety.”
The Trump administration’s cavalier stance on AI, as outlined by Vance in Paris, has largely been defined by its hands-off, deregulatory approach meant to accelerate development. In the global AI race, the United States is effectively the Wild West. Just last week, President Donald Trump’s reversed course and rejected his own administration’s plans to enact a new AI vetting protocol
In 2023, world leaders and tech executives gathered in England for the AI Safety Summit, which was the first global conference on artificial intelligence. Two years later, the group reconvened in Paris under a different title: the AI Action Summit. Gone was the emphasis on safety. Lest there be any doubt, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance told the room: “The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety.”
