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Vance in Paris: American technology as the partner of choice.

The Vice President tells the AI Action Summit that the United States will remain the gold standard, and that allies who want access must coordinate on regulation.

Speaker
JD VanceVice President of the United States
Venue
AI Action Summit, Grand Palais, Paris
Delivered
Feb 11, 2025
This administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to be the gold standard worldwide, and we are the partner of choice for other foreign countries and certainly businesses as they expand their own use of AI.

The Paris speech is the doctrine's first articulation in technology terms. Allied nations get access to American AI on American legal architecture, or they buy from someone whose rules they cannot read.

Vance's framing, partner of choice rather than provider of last resort, sets the conditional on which Pax Silica and the AI Exports Program later operate. Capital flows toward the platform that wins the standards fight. Standards are won by being deployed everywhere capable partners want to operate.