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Despite strong disagreement, scope remains for shared understandings on AI issues

At the recent Paris AI Summit, US Vice President J.D. Vance declared that the “Trump administration will ensure that AI systems developed in America are free from ideological bias and never restrict our citizens’ right to free speech”. It would have been hard to imagine European Commission President von der Leyen – also in attendance in France – adopting a similar tone.

Whatever you think of her Commission’s AI Act as a whole, however, it directly tackles the concern of AI-powered manipulation that featured centrally in Vance’s speech. This overlap shows that there remains much scope for international convergence around some on the most important questions in AI governance. New research also makes these manipulation guardrails more urgent.