J.D. Vance Defends AI Deregulation as Key to U.S. Tech Innovation and Job Growth

J.D. Vance Defends AI Deregulation as Key to U.S. Tech Innovation and Job Growth

On Tuesday, Vice President J. D. Vance said that the Trump administration’s support of AI and tech innovations should benefit both populists and those investing and leading tech companies.         Image:Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images “I think there’s too much fear that AI will simply replace jobs rather than augmenting so many of the things that we do now,” said Vance at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. While Vance acknowledged that new technologies could lead to a displacement of certain jobs, as was the case with bank tellers when the ATM was invented, he said that history shows that innovation ultimately helps create more engaging, higher-paying jobs.  “What I propose is that each group, our workers, the Populists on the one hand, the tech optimists on the other, have been failed by this government, not just the government of the last administration, but the government in some ways, of the last 40 years,” Vance said. By not imposing significant regul…