Conservative Icon Vance Declares AI ‘Communist’ While Crypto Embraces Freedom

The Vice President just called AI communist. At a Bitcoin Conference, J.D. Vance dropped this bombshell: “crypto is libertarian; AI is communist.” Yeah, he really said that. The VP backed up his claim by pointing to Stanford research showing large language models lean left politically. Apparently, robots have political opinions now.

Vance went full crypto cheerleader, declaring “Operation Chokepoint 2.0 is dead” and promising the Trump administration would never handicap the crypto community. He’s firing Gary Gensler from the SEC chair position. The VP slammed regulators who “attacked every effort to democratize financial markets” under the guise of consumer protection. Translation: let crypto run wild. He thanked the Winklevoss brothers for their early support of Trump in Silicon Valley, highlighting the crypto community’s political influence.

Crypto cheerleader Vance kills regulations, fires Gensler, promises wild west financial markets

But here’s where it gets interesting. While embracing crypto’s chaos, Vance outlined an “open, forward-looking AI agenda” that sounds suspiciously like having your cake and eating it too. He wants America to stay the AI leader by out-innovating those pesky “safety first” nations. Because nothing says American values like throwing caution to the wind.

The VP’s real beef with AI seems to be foreign adversaries weaponizing it. He specifically called out DeepSeek as “a tool that perpetuates Communist China’s agenda.” Vance warned about AI being used to rewrite history, spy on users, and spread propaganda. Fair points, actually. Nobody wants China stealing military intelligence through chatbots.

This whole thing reveals a weird political tech divide. According to Vance, conservatives love decentralized crypto while liberals embrace centralized AI. Wharton School findings show conservatives demonstrate higher trust in cryptocurrency compared to AI systems. His characterization of AI as inherently biased reflects growing concerns about systematic errors affecting marginalized groups in AI applications. It’s almost like he’s creating teams for a tech culture war. Conservatives get Bitcoin, liberals get ChatGPT. Pick your side.

The administration’s message is crystal clear: crypto good, foreign AI bad, American AI…complicated. They’re killing crypto regulations while simultaneously warning about AI dangers and promoting AI development. It’s a balancing act that would make a circus performer jealous.

Vance believes “anyone should be able to make a fortune” in markets. Unless you’re making that fortune with Chinese AI, apparently. Then you’re just spreading communism. The irony of calling a technology communist while promoting unrestricted capitalism isn’t lost here.