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At the Paris AI Action Summit last week, US Vice-President J.D. Vance decried “excessive regulation of the AI sector”.
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Shashi Jayakumar
National interest seems to trump everything these days, including concerted international governance over some of the most challenging issues of our times.
On the face of it, the declaration that emerged from the Paris AI Action Summit last week was unremarkable, and ticked all the right boxes: accessibility, trust, fostering innovation, sustainable growth, and addressing environmental challenges. But, looking past the anodyne substance in the statement and scraping away the razzmatazz of the summit – the corporate speak and paeans to AI innovation – there is no masking the various failures.
