The United Kingdom makes common cause with the US and does not sign the declaration of the Paris

Starmer was in fact one of the great absent at the summit held in the French capital and sponsored by the president Emmanuel Macron. A Downing Street spokesman justified the refusal to sign the statement claiming that the text does not reflect the position of the British government in matters such as “the opportunity and security” of AI.

Interestingly, the former conservative premier Rishi sunak It was the promoter of the first security summit of the AI ​​held in 2023 in Bletchley Park and criticized by the American vice president JD Vance as “too cautious and adverse risk.”

The United Kingdom’s decision to make common cause with the United States occurred precisely shortly after the intervention of JD Vance at the Summit of the AI ​​of Paris, where he launched a very direct allegation against the EU for “the excessive regulation of the sector that can kill a transformative industry. “

Vance compared artificial intelligence with the steam machine and claimed “an international regulatory framework that serves to encourage and not to strangle AI, and that is what we particularly need our European friends, who look at this new border with optimism and not with fear”.

No need to mention Elon Muskwho was Sunak’s special guest at the first Summit of the AI ​​and now act as an efficiency advisor in the Trump administration (without renouncing its billionaires interests in the sector), JD Vance promptly criticized the EU Digital Services Law and the effort to regulate social networks.

“It is one thing to prevent a sexual predator from making a child its internet prey,” Vance said, paraphrasing Musk. “And another very different thing is to prevent a man or a woman from adulthood to access an opinion because the government thinks it is misinformation.”

Despite the presence in the act of Chinese vice -minister Zhang GuoqingVance prevailed to other countries against the temptation to seal alliances with “authoritarian regimes” that intend to “infiltrate, dig and seize your information infrastructure.”

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenhe tried hard to steal the prominence of JD Vance in the Paris’ conclave, with the announcement of the public-private initiative investigated, with 50,000 million euros (To add to the 150,000 million already announced as part of the “EU AI Champions Initiative”).

“We are going to mobilize a total of 200,000 million euros For investments in AI in Europe, “said von der Leyen, who defended the creation of”gigafactorías of artificial intelligence “in the block and launched a double and subtle warning to the US and China:” The AI ​​career is far from having finished. “