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Keir Starmer opts not to attend international AI summit in Paris (www.theguardian.com)

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Keir Starmer has decided not to travel to Paris for next week’s international summit on artificial intelligence, despite the presence of other world leaders including Emmanuel Macron, Narendra Modi and JD Vance.

Sources have told the Guardian that the prime minister will not attend the summit, the latest in a series of international AI conferences started by the former prime minister Rishi Sunak last year at Bletchley Park.

Officials say the prime minister, who has been criticised in the past for taking too many foreign trips, will be concentrating on his domestic agenda instead.

But by missing the Paris conference, Starmer risks upsetting the French president and the Indian prime minister, who are co-hosting, and missing out on a chance to speak to some of those closest to the US president, Donald Trump. The US vice-president, JD Vance, is expected to represent the US, but industry sources believe Elon Musk may also attend in a business capacity as the founder of the AI company xAI.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Like it or not, JD "Fuckboy" Vance is vice-vice-president.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Honorary Elon Musk placeholder