The United States warned of authoritarian regimes at the Summit of the AI ​​of Paris: “Associating with them means chaining a master”

The American vice president, JD Vance he warned on Tuesday at a summit about artificial intelligence that would be a Error ally with “authoritarian regimes” To develop this revolutionary technology, in a clear Message to China.

Vance He also warned about an “excessive regulation” of the sector which is attracting multimillion -dollar investments and at the same time has alarmed alarm to the proliferation of fake images or news, as well as financial frauds to the detriment of users.

The Paris AI Summit the third that is celebrated in a few years, showed three different approaches to the phenomenon: United States in favor of “creativity” without brakes, India as a southern voice, asking not to forget poor countries, and Europe announcing investments, so as not to be fallen from the race.

In a context in which The United States and China rival in the AI ​​field Vance warned the international community against the option to reach agreements with “authoritarian regimes “, In the midst of a frenzy of discoveries, such as the recent Chinese conversational robot Deepseek, and multimillionaire investments.

“Associating with them means chaining their nation to an authoritarian master who seeks to infiltrate, install and seize his information infrastructure, ”said Vance, who gave as an example the “very subsidized ”exports, as China does with its technology 5g.

The Chinese Vice Prime Minister, Zhang Guoqing present in the debates, did not intervene in the plenary.

“We will do our best for foster policies that favor the growth of AI “Vance said in his speech before hundreds of leaders, such as the co -chants of the appointment, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi and the French president Emmanuel Macron.

“The United States is a leader in AI” and the administration of the US president, Donald Trump, “pretends to continue to be” added, a reference to the public-private program with investments of up to 500,000 million dollars announced by Trump.

The vice president stressed that the objective of his government to maintain technological leadership in this sector It does not exclude cooperation with other countries.

But it made it clear that this collaboration It will be made on the basis that US technical standards. They are “the world standard”, that excessive regulation is rejected and that the use of the workers of your country is protected.

Vance insisted on several occasions that an excess of regulation -and cited as an example the Digital Services Regulation of the European Union– It can end up being a censorship “To control users’ thoughts.”

As he said, his government is in favor of “protecting a minor from a digital predator”, but not to “prevent an adult woman or man access to content that her government considers misinformation.”

“The Trump administration believes that AI will have revolutionary implications” although before those advances “Our answers tend to be too cautious, risk aversion” he said.

Although the objective of this summit is sign a common statement the divergences between blocks and the leading companies themselves are evident.

The challenge is “Embrace formidable technological transformationss (…) and do it at the same time for the benefit of all humanity, ”he explained Macron the coanfrerion of the appointment, In the Grand Palais.

For her part, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU is proposed, associated with the private sector, Invest about 200,000 million euros (206,000 million dollars) in the sector.

The most recent investment, according to the newspaper Wall Street Journal is the proposal of the pattern of social network X and Tesla, Elon Musk for Buy Openai the pioneer of the AI, for 97.4 billion dollars.

The OpenAi driver, Sam Altman which opened the doors of the AI ​​to the general public with the Chatbot Chatgpt at the end of 2022 and began in that world next to Musk, responded with irony.

“No thanks, but if you want we can buy you Twitter (old name of X) for 9,740 million dollars,” Altman reacted.

For the political leaders present at the Grand Palais in Paris, AI is synonymous with a new change of economic model or, with implications for national security, labor market, health or education.

According to observers, Neither the United States nor the United Kingdom will sign the declaration.