A Chinese, an American, an Indian and a lot of Europeans seek to agree on a multilateral summit of the Trump era on the most decisive technology in the world. The statement, which could be one of those devilish riddles, only allows you to think of a disastrous outcome. And the United States vice president, JD Vance, invited to the meeting in Paris on artificial intelligence (AI) who tries to build a third, regulated and more human way for this technology, certified the prediction. “Excessive regulation could kill her,” he warned as soon as he began his speech in the closing.
Artificial intelligence is already the technology that articulates much of the movements of world geopolitics, where private and public interests are intertwined. The last day of the summit began with the hangover of the offer Elon Musk to buy Openai, the creator of Chatgpt. His CEO, Sam Altman, who was in the Parisian event, confirmed his refusal. “It is not for sale.” One more chapter of a global fight to control the AI that was going to be shown with the announcement of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, of a mobilization of 200,000 million euros (of public and private money) in the coming years . But with greater rawness, shortly after, in Vance’s speech and in the US refusal and the United Kingdom to sign the final statement, which fundamentally invokes a more open, regulated, inclusive, safe and democratic technology. Both countries denied their signature with that of 61 states, among which are China, India or the European Union itself.
Vance, before knowing the news, had liquidated any hope of approach. The American vice president stressed that the Trump administration wants to “maintain the advantage” of his country in AI and avoid an “excessive regulation” of the sector. In addition, he stressed that “the US is the leader in artificial intelligence” and that both Trump and Vance claim that this “remains like this.” The vice president also warned that an “excessive regulation” of the sector “could kill an industry in full hatching”, so he said that the US will bet on policies “in favor of growth” in AI. That is, it will avoid participating in the regulation and governance plans that are proposed from the EU.
The vice president stressed that the objective of maintaining technological leadership in this sector does not exclude cooperation with other countries. But it made it clear that this collaboration will be done on the basis that the US technical standards are “the world standard”, that excessive regulation is rejected and that the use of their country’s workers is protected. “We need international regulatory regimes that encourage the creation of AI technology instead of strangling it, and we need our particular European friends to look at this new border with optimism instead of fear.” His words anticipate the complicated writing of the final declaration of this summit, which will be known throughout this Tuesday and that will hardly allow establishing the terms of a great agreement, as France intended.
The morning had been marked by the statements around the commercial war that the US has opened with several world powers, including the EU. And Vance’s tone was raised when he spoke vestically about the possible European response to tariffs imposed by Trump. “We are concerned about the reports of some foreign governments that are considering tightening the nuts to US technology companies,” he launched in front of leaders such as the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, or the president of France, Emmanuel Macron. “We are not going to accept that; It is a terrible mistake for their countries. ”
Public-Private Association
The head of the Community Executive took the floor just after Vance to speak in an opposite direction and announce a public-private investment of 200,000 million euros in the European Sector of the AI, which will focus on “industrial applications and critical objectives” . As detailed by the European leader, the EU will contribute 50,000 million euros to the European initiative for the AI champions, which will be added to the 150,000 million that companies in the sector have already committed. “It will be the greater public-private association in the world for the development of reliable artificial intelligence, ”he said.
On Tuesday at noon, and beyond technical considerations, it gave the feeling that the summit had served only to make colossal investments ads that can attract technological companies to certain geographical areas. Far from reaching agreements about regulation and technology, all actors continue to make war on their own. Including France, organizer of the summit, which has fundamentally dedicated to gloss the excellent of the sector within its borders and the investments made by the president of French (109,000 million euros) in recent days.
