This is the Kiddery Daily podcast for Wednesday, March 5th, 2025.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Amid his dressing down of Europeans over their regulatory agenda with regard to AI.

Some alarming stuff came out of the mouth of Vice President J.D. Vance,

including assurances that the U.S. would be a leader in AI development

with some very big caveats. One, that U.S. AI systems would be free of ideological bias,

whatever that might mean, and those systems would run on American-designed and manufactured chips.

Cato's Matt Middlestead comments.

Matt, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the big headline coming out of J.D. Vance's

speech in Europe was sort of lambasting them with respect to their regulatory structure and how that might impact the development of AI in Europe.

But there was a lot more to it than that.

Yeah.

So just to set the stage here recently, J.D. Vance gave a pretty large address at the Paris AI Action Summit, a gathering of world leaders to discuss AI policy and potentially a path forward on this critical technology. And in this address, he laid out the contours of what I think is probably Trump-era AI policy. Now, in part, this included, like you said,

lombasting European over-regulation.

He really tried to play the free market hits,

going after GDPR, going after the Digital Services Act,

and also promising, to an extent,

a generally non-regulatory approach, not wanting to saddle this industry with excessive rules.

Now, all of that said, I think that, unfortunately, because of these pronouncements, a lot of people on the free market side of the equation missed many, many dog whistles and explicit promises of intervention in the economy.

What were some of the things that perked your ears up in terms of being alarming?

Well, one of the statements that really got my ears burning was the promise that American AI software would be run and developed on American chips made by

American companies here in the United States. Now, for anyone who understands the structure of

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