Rude awakening: America and Europe head the wrong way with AI

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  The attempt at global harmony ended in cacophony.

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  As Emmanuel Macron's AI summit drew to a close on February 11,

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  JD Vance, America's Vice President,

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  bluntly set out an America First vision for artificial intelligence, or AI,

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  castigated Europe for being too rule-bound, and left before the usual group photograph.

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  EU countries, for their part,

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  struck a collaborative tone with China and the Global South

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  while stressing the need to limit the risks of using AI.

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  Both Europe and America should rethink their approach.

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  After the work by DeepSeek, China's hot-shot model maker,

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  Europe has been given an unexpected chance to catch up,

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  if it can cast off its regulatory straitjacket.

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  America can no longer behave as if it has a monopoly on AI.

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  It should change how it wields power over its allies.

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  The pace of innovation is astonishing.

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