The United states on Monday unveiled new export rules on chips used for artificial intelligence, divvying up the world to keep advanced computing power in the U.S. and among it’s allies.
According to the US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo The U.S. leads AI now, both AI development and AI chip design, and it’s critical that it is kept that way.
Raimondo said the new regulation will reduce the number of AI chips that can be exported to most countries and allow unlimited access to U.S. AI technology for America’s closest allies.
This will at same time help to maintain a block on exports to china, Russia, Iran and North Korea while helping the U.S. keep its dominant status in AI by controlling it around the world.
The regulations cap a four-year Biden administration effort to hobble China’s access to advanced chips that can enhance its military capabilities and seek to maintain U.S. leadership in AI by closing loopholes and adding new guard rails to control the flow of chips and global development of AI.
The regulation is set to take effect 120 days from publication, giving the Trump administration time to weigh in.
