Which AI camp has Trump’s ear now?

FOR most of its first year, the second-term Trump administration’s artificial intelligence policy had the coherence of a bumper sticker.

It wanted to deregulate, out-innovate China, and treated any talk of “safety” as a euphemism for censorship or a competitor’s attempt to pull up the ladder. 

Vice-President JD Vance set the tone at the Paris AI Action Summit in February 2025, dismissing “hand-wringing about safety” as a threat to a transformative industry.