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Vice President JD Vance said that the Trump administration will work to make the US the “gold standard worldwide” for artificial intelligence as he issued strong warnings against regulating political speech.

The vice president’s speech at the Paris AI Summit emphasized speed, deregulation, and America’s bid for global technological supremacy.

The vice president said the world had better follow the U.S.’s lead in both model development and its hands-off regulatory approach.

Artificial intelligence is, we believe, going to make us more productive, more prosperous, and more free.” So proclaimed Vice President JD Vance at his first foreign speech, given to an AI forum conducted jointly by the French and Indian governments.