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JD Vance continues, talking about “revolutionary applications” of AI and the need to deregulate to allow for its fast development and its roll out.

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 will not only unfairly benefit incumbents in the space, it would mean paralysing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations.

I’m not here this morning to talk about AI safety, which was the title of the conference a couple of years ago. I’m here to talk about AI opportunity.

When conferences like this convene to discuss a cutting edge technology, oftentimes, I think our response is to be too self conscious, too risk averse. But never have I encountered a breakthrough in tech that so clearly calls us to do precisely the opposite.

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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/11/europe-live-paris-ai-action-summit-macron-von-der-leyen-jd-vance-tariffs