Sam Winter-Levy
On Monday, President Joe Biden’s administration released one of its most ambitious acts of economic and technological policymaking. In an “interim final rule” whose wonky title—a “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion”—belies its importance, the Biden administration has sought to reshape the international AI landscape. The rule seeks to set the export and security terms for the AI market that will produce the world’s most powerful technological systems in the coming years.
The rule tightens control over sales of AI chips and turns them into a diplomatic tool. It seeks to enshrine and formalize the use of U.S. AI exports as leverage to extract geopolitical and technological concessions. And it is the Biden administration’s latest attempt to limit Chinese access to the high-end chips that are critical to training advanced AI models.
With a new administration taking office in a week, the rule’s ultimate impact is uncertain. President-elect Donald Trump and his staff will no doubt take a fresh look at how—or whether—to regulate the export of advanced U.S. AI technology. But as they do so, they too will have to reckon with the underlying national security pressures and economic incentives that drove the Biden administration’s development of this policy.
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