JD Vance is taking to the international stage for the first time this week as US vice president, utilizing a well-known artificial knowledge summit in France and a meeting of national security officials in Germany to highlight Donald Trump‘s more confrontational approach to politics.
The 40-year-old evil chairman, who was just 18 months into his career as a lawmaker before joining Trump’s seat, is expected, while in Paris, to push back on Western efforts to strengthen AI monitoring while advocating for a more empty, innovation-driven approach.
The AI mountain has drawn world leaders, major tech professionals, and policymakers to discuss unnatural intelligence’s impact on global protection, economics, and management. High-profile attendees also include Chinese evil leading Zhang Guoqing, signaling Beijing’s strong curiosity in shaping international AI standards. The event features a growing disconnect between the European Union and other athletes pushing for more regulations to make the fast-paced technology safer for the people, and the US, where the Trump administration has prioritized business-friendly plans and technological supremacy.
Vance’s trip extends beyond Paris. He has announced that he plans to push European allies to increase their commitments to NATO and Ukraine during his trip to Germany for the Munich security conference later this week.
Vance’s debut abroad
Vance, who is taking his first significant overseas trip since taking office, will be introduced to some European leaders at the summit. He has indicated that he will hold open discussions on AI policy and other broader geopolitical issues at the summit.
The main reason I’m going to the AI Summit is to have some private conversations with the world leaders who will also be there, Vance told Breitbart News. ” I think there are a lot of the leaders who are present at the AI summit could do to, to be honest, bring the Russia-Ukraine conflict to a close, help us diplomatically there, and so we’re going to be focused on those meetings in France,” said one leader.
According to a person familiar with planning who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the yet to be formally announced bilateral meetings, Vance is scheduled to meet separately on Tuesday on the sidelines of the summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Vance was joined by his wife Usha and their three children, Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel, for the trip to Europe. They were greeted in France on Monday morning by Manuel Valls, the minister for Overseas France, and the US embassy’s charged’affaires, David McCawley.
Vance will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron for lunch on Tuesday, where they will discuss topics like Ukraine and the Middle East. Like the US president, Vance has questioned the US’s wider plan to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin from the world. Trump made a promise to put an end to the fighting within six months of office.
Vance also addressed a topic he raised last year at the Munich security conference that he thought was a worrying trend in Europe regarding free speech.
” Unfortunately, you’ve seen in Europe a really significant, and I think, frankly, an evil trend towards censorship”, he said. ” And you hear a lot about America’s moral leadership. Free speech will be one of the topics of President Trump’s moral leadership. We believe that free and open discussion is actually beneficial and that everyone should be able to express their opinions. Unfortunately, a lot of our European friends have gone the wrong direction there”.
Vance is once more in Munich to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. He intends to bring up some issues he raised last year, such as” to hit on” the need for more accountability from NATO allies.
Leaders in Europe have been paying close attention to Trump’s recent statements regarding his threats to impose tariffs on the European Union, take control of Greenland, and his suggestion that Palestinians should leave Gaza once the Israeli-Hamas conflict is over, a position that Arab allies have flatly rejected.
Fostering AI advances
The summit, which gathers major players such as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, aims at fostering AI advances in sectors like health, education, environment and culture.
A global public-private partnership titled” Current AI” will be established to support large-scale initiatives that benefit the general public.
The Paris summit marked the first time there has been such a comprehensive global discussion on the future of AI, according to Linda Griffin, Mozilla’s vice president of public policy. ” I see it as a norm-setting moment”.
By “moving away from this concentration of power amongst a few private actors and building this public interest AI in the place of this concentration,” noted Nick Reiners, senior geotechnology analyst at Eurasia Group.
However, it remains unclear if the United States will support such initiatives.
” There’s a lot of complicated questions to resolve” around issues like the ability to control AI systems, Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis, founder of Google’s DeepMind research lab, said. ” But I believe that the geopolitical questions about things like regulation may become even more complex.”
The summit’s goal is for the French to trigger significant investment announcements in Europe, positioning the region as a viable competitor in an increasingly US-China rivalry that is being shaped by the US-China conflict.
France plans to announce AI private investments worth a total of 109 billion euros ($ 113 billion ) over the coming years, Macron said, presenting it as” the equivalent” of Trump’s Stargate AI data centers project.
Macron used artificial intelligence to alter his voice and image in various parodies on the eve of the AI summit, which he claimed was intended to elicit discussion about the potential and risks of AI. He posted a number of “deepfake” videos of himself on Instagram on the eve of the AI summit.
Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, criticized any moves to obstruct access to AI tools in Beijing on Monday. The US Congress has been calling for the use of DeepSeek to be restricted for security reasons since its release.
We oppose the emergence of ideological boundaries, overstretching national security ideas, and politicizing economic and trade issues, Guo said.
He stated that China supports open-source AI technology and encourages the use of AI services to spread the benefits of artificial intelligence to all nations.
In an effort to involve more international actors in AI development and prevent the sector from turning into a US-China conflict, India’s Modi is co-hosting the summit.
Vikram Misri, India’s foreign secretary, emphasized the need for equal access to AI to prevent “perpetuating a digital divide that is already existing across the world.”
Macron will also travel to Marseille, in southern France, on Wednesday with Modi to inaugurate an Indian consulate there and visit the ITER nuclear research site.
With discussions pending, New Delhi will purchase 26 Rafale fighter jets and three Scorpene submarines, France has become a significant defense partner for India. According to officials in India, the deal may be reached in a few weeks and discussions are in its final stages.
