Vice President Vance is right to call out such overregulation and its problematic consequences. However, the speech’s overall nationalist tone and countless overlooked market intervention dog whistles should raise concerns.
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Matt Mittelsteadt
At the recent AI Action Summit, Vice President JD Vance delivered a barnburner debut on the international policy stage. In his fifteen-minute address, the vice president distilled Trump-era AI policy: colored by optimism for AI potential, a dismissal of AI safety regulation, a muscular resistance to European rules, pro-worker policy, and the explicit sense that AI will be a potent tool to deter American adversaries.
