JD Vance lays out plan for American AI dominance at Paris summit

Vance was speaking at the AI summit in Paris and advanced the Trump administration's America First policies in the industry, saying unequivocally that the US is the leader in the field and would stay that way.

Vance thanked French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for co-hosting the summit before recognizing that he was at the summit to discuss AI opportunity, not AI safety. He said that prior conferences on AI had been too risk-averse.

"Our administration, the Trump administration believes that AI will have countless revolutionary applications and economic innovation, job creation, national security, health care, free expression, and beyond. And to restrict its development now would not only unfairly benefit incumbents in the space, it would mean paralyzing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations," he said.

Vance made four clear points as to where America stands on AI.

1. "This administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to be the gold standard worldwide and we are the partner of choice for others, foreign countries, and certainly businesses as they expand their own use of AI."

2. "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." He noted that he'd like to see "that deregulatory flavor making its way into a lot of the conversations this conference."

3. "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."

4. "The Trump administration will maintain a pro-worker growth path for AI so it can be a potent tool for job creation in the United States." He said further that AI will "facilitate and will make people more productive. It is not going to replace human beings. It will never replace human beings."

"AI, we believe, is going to make us more productive, more prosperous, and more free," Vance said. "America is the leader in AI and our administration aims to keep it that way. The US possesses all components across the full AI stack, including advanced semiconductor design, frontier algorithms and of course transformational applications."

To "safeguard the American advantage," he said, the Trump administration will "make sure the most powerful AI systems are built within the US using American designed and manufactured chips." He extended invitations to international business partners, both nations and companies, to work with the US in this growing technological sector.

His full speech can be viewed here: