This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . In February 2025, Vice President JD Vance took the stage at the Paris AI Action Summit to share the administration’s views on AI regulation. “The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,” he warned. Excessive regulations might “kill a transformative industry just as it’s taking off,” Vance said, and suggested that AI companies asking to be regulated might simply be trying to crush their future competitors. Vance’s remarks reflected the idea, then common among Trump officials, that fears about AI capabilities are dramatically overstated.…