Michael C. Horowitz
Today, in its waning days, the Biden administration, through the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), released an eagerly anticipated Regulatory Framework for the Responsible Diffusion of Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technology. The policy lays out a global framework to govern the export of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from chips to AI model weights from the United States to the world. The policy builds on previous policy releases focused on limiting exports of AI technology to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and other countries of concern like Russia. The policy is designed to achieve two goals. First, it attempts to enable U.S. companies to export and lead in key global AI markets by reducing and streamlining current bureaucratic barriers to exports. Second, the policy further controls PRC access to the most advanced U.S.-based AI technologies through regulatory changes.
Throughout its term, the Biden administration has promoted and protected American AI leadership given the significance of AI for economic development, technology leadership, and strategic competition between the United States and the PRC. U.S. companies like OpenAI and Anthropic lead in developing AI algorithms, while NVIDIA excels in producing semiconductor chips for training these models. Frontier AI also depends on cloud computing via vast data centers, with U.S. hyperscalers—Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft—leading the sector. Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Huawei follow closely behind, especially in model capabilities.
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