Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldUS vice-president JD Vance has vowed that the US will remain the dominant force in artificial intelligence and warned Europe not to adopt “overly precautionary” regulations that strangle innovation or censor free speech. “The Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI systems are built in the US, with American-designed and manufactured chips,” Vance told an audience of world leaders and tech executives during the AI Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday.As part of the new administration’s “America First” agenda on the race to develop AI, the US refused to sign the communique negotiated at the summit and signed by about 60 countries. The declaration calls for “ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all”.The UK also did not sign the communique, with one person close to the government suggesting the wording was “too restrictive”. In the two previous editions of AI summits, both countries had signed similar declarations. The harder US stance comes as competition is heating up with China on developments around AI: chip manufacturing, so-called foundational models and AI chatbots, and the energy needed to power supercomputers. The recent arrival of a new cut-price AI model from DeepSeek, a little known Chinese research lab, shocked Silicon Valley groups such as OpenAI, who thought they had a commanding advantage. Meanwhile, Europe is seeking a foothold in the AI industry to avoid becoming too reliant on the US or China. At the two-day summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, European leaders and companies unveiled about €200bn of planned investments in data centres and computing clusters to underpin the region’s AI efforts.On Tuesday, Vance suggested the US was happy to work with other countries, but only on its own terms. “America wants to partner with all of you . . . but to create that kind of trust, we need international regulatory regimes that foster the creation of AI technology rather than strangle it,” he said.The vice-president also told the assembled leaders the US would not relinquish its lead in AI, while also warning countries not to sign AI deals with “authoritarian regimes”, in a thinly veiled jab against China. “Partnering with them means chaining your nation to an authoritarian master that seeks to infiltrate, dig in and seize your information infrastructure,” Vance said, referring to CCTV and 5G as previous examples where “cheap tech . . . [was] heavily subsidised and exported by authoritarian regimes”. Among the priorities set out in the joint declaration signed by countries including China, India and Germany was “reinforcing international co-operation to promote co-ordination in international governance”.Such language put off the US, which did not agree on the terminology around multilateralism and international collaboration, said an official from one of the countries that signed the document. The US also had concerns that Current AI, the foundation launched by France during the summit, would be used to funnel money to French-speaking countries, the official said. Vance’s speech was “a 180-degree turnaround from what we saw with the Biden administration”, said Keegan McBride, a lecturer at the Oxford Internet Institute, who studies the geopolitics of AI. The narrative around Macron’s summit was about pushing alternatives to the US-led drive to develop AI technologies. Following the launch of powerful open models from DeepSeek, Europeans have felt like they have a fleeting chance to compete in AI, said Frederike Kaltheuner, senior EU and global governance lead at the AI Now Institute, an AI research institute. “Vance just dumped water all over that. [It] was like, ‘Yeah, that’s cute. But guess what? You know you’re actually not the ones who are making the calls here. It’s us.’” said McBride.Additional reporting by Jim Pickard
