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Paris AI Action Summit: US and UK refuse to sign accord
Dozens of countries signed a statement in support of ‘inclusive and sustainable artificial intelligence’; the EU committed billions to the development effort.
But safety and sustainability are also not acceptable goals for the US, according to Vice President JD Vance, who addressed the summit on Tuesday morning. “If too many of our friends are deindustrializing on the one hand and chasing reliable power out of their nations and off their grids with the other, the AI future is not going to be won by handwringing about safety.” Vance’s remarks about chasing out reliable power are likely a reference to moves in Europe to reduce reliance on electricity generated by burning oil and gas, European supplies of which have been disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in favor of renewable but weather-dependent sources such as solar- or wind-powered systems.
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