After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong
Europe has a chance to catch up, whereas America should ease up
The attempt at global harmony ended in cacophony. As Emmanuel Macron’s ai summit drew to a close on February 11th J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, bluntly set out an America-first vision for artificial intelligence (AI), castigated Europe for being too rule-bound and left before the usual group photograph. eu countries, for their part, struck a collaborative tone with China and the global south, while stressing the need to limit the risks of using ai.
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This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “The Paris discord ”
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