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JD Vance

Vice president of the United States since 2025

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Now, we've also watched as hostile foreign adversaries have weaponized AI software to rewrite history, surveil users, and censor speech. This is hardly new, of course. As they do with other tech, some authoritarian regimes have stolen and used AI to strengthen their military, intelligence, and surveillance capabilities; capture foreign data; and create propaganda to undermine other nations' national security.

JD Vance

Vice president of the United States since 2025

At the 2025 AI Action Summit, Vice President JD Vance said hostile foreign governments had used AI for censorship, surveillance, military and intelligence capabilities, data capture, and propaganda that undermines other countries’ security.

Vice president of the United StatesFebruary 11, 2025Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris

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We can trust our people to think, to consume information, to develop their own ideas, and to debate with one another in the open marketplace of ideas. Now, we've also watched as hostile foreign adversaries have weaponized AI software to rewrite history, surveil users, and censor speech. This is hardly new, of course. As they do with other tech, some authoritarian regimes have stolen and used AI to strengthen their military, intelligence, and surveillance capabilities; capture foreign data; and create propaganda to undermine other nations' national security. I want to be clear. This administration will block such efforts, full stop.

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  • The American Presidency Project says it reproduced speech text distributed by the Office of the Vice President on February 11, 2025; this review did not compare that distributed text with a recording.
  • Later in the same speech, Vance said this did not mean ‘all concerns about safety go out the window,’ but said the focus should be on AI’s opportunities. That qualification does not retract his specific claims about hostile state use.

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Yes, there are concerns. Yes, there are risks. But we have to be leaning into the AI future with optimism and hope, because I think real technological innovation is going to make our country stronger.

JD Vance

Vice president of the United States since 2025

At a 2025 technology summit, Vice President JD Vance acknowledged concerns and risks from AI but said the United States should approach it with optimism because innovation would strengthen the country.

Vice president of the United StatesMarch 18, 2025American Dynamism Summit

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I think the answer is obvious, and that's why, America, we've got to be tech-forward. Yes, there are concerns. Yes, there are risks. But we have to be leaning into the AI future with optimism and hope, because I think real technological innovation is going to make our country stronger. So, deindus- -- deindustrialization poses risks both to our national security and our workforce. It's important because it affects both. And the net result is dispossession, for many in this country, of any part of the productive process.

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Now, with the president's recent executive order on AI, we're developing an AI Action Plan that avoids an overly precautionary regulatory regime while ensuring that all Americans benefit from the technology and its transformative potential.

JD Vance

Vice president of the United States since 2025

At the 2025 AI Action Summit, Vice President JD Vance said the administration was developing an AI plan intended to avoid what he called overly precautionary regulation while ensuring all Americans benefit.

Vice president of the United StatesFebruary 11, 2025Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris

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Instead, our laws will keep Big Tech, Little Tech, and all other developers on a level playing field. Now, with the president's recent executive order on AI, we're developing an AI Action Plan that avoids an overly precautionary regulatory regime while ensuring that all Americans benefit from the technology and its transformative potential. Now, we invite your countries to work with us and to follow that model if it makes sense for your nations. However, the Trump Administration is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening the screws on U.S.

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  • The speech places this plan inside an extended argument that excessive regulation could kill the AI industry. Near the close, Vance said not all safety concerns should ‘go out the window,’ but that the current focus should be AI’s opportunities.
  • The American Presidency Project says it reproduced speech text distributed by the Office of the Vice President on February 11, 2025; this review did not compare that distributed text with a recording.

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