Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate A.I.

Vice-president JD Vance told European and Asian leaders in Paris on Tuesday that the Trump administration adopted an first aggressive approach to America to dominate all the constituent elements of artificial intelligence, and warned Europeans to dismantle the regulations and get on board with Washington.

During his first journey abroad since he entered into office, Mr. Vance used his opening speech during a meeting of the AI ​​summit organized by France and India to describe his vision of An era to come from American technological domination. Europe, he said, would be forced to choose between the use of technologies designed by Americans and manufactured or the side of authoritarian competitors – a reference not very well watched to China – which would use technology to their detriment.

“The Trump administration will guarantee that the most powerful AI systems are built in the United States with an American design and fabricated tokens,” he said, quickly adding that “it is not because we are the leader alone. “

But he said that for Europe to become what it clearly envisages as a junior partner, it must eliminate a large part of its digital regulatory structure – and a large part of its Internet police for what its governments define as a disinformation.

For Mr. Vance, who is part of a week -long tour that will lead him next to the Munich security conference, the first European meeting of leaders, foreign ministers and defense and others, speech was clearly intended for a war. He largely reduced the silence of the room in a wing in the Grand Palais in the center of Paris. Managers accustomed to talking about “railings” for emerging applications of artificial intelligence and “equity” to ensure that technology is available and comfortable for poorly served populations did not hear any of these sentences from Mr. Vance.

He spoke only a few hours after President Trump put new 25% prices on foreign steel, essentially canceling trade agreements with Europe and other regions. Mr. Vance’s speech, composed precisely and pronounced with accent, seemed an indicator of the tone that the leaders of the national security of Mr. Trump planned to take to Europe this week.