US commerce dept revokes export licences to Huawei

Considers regulatory push to restrict export of closed source Al models

The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard US Al from China with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI Models, the core software of artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, sources said.

The Commerce Department is considering a new regulatory push to restrict the export of proprietary or closed source AI models, whose software and the data it is trained on are kept under wraps, three people familiar with the matter said.

Any action would complement a series of measures put in place over the last two years to block the export of sophisticated AI chips to China in an effort to slow Beijing's develop ment of the cutting edge technology for military purposes. Even so, it will be hard for regulators to keep pace with the industry's fast-moving developments.

The Commerce Department declined to comment. The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Currently, nothing is stop ping US AI giants like Microsoftbacked OpenAI, Alphabet's Google DeepMind and rival Anthropic, which have developed some of the most powerful closed source AI models, from selling them to almost anyone in the world without government oversight. Government and private sector researchers worry US adversaries could use the models, which mine vast amounts of text and images to summarise information and generate content, to wage aggressive cyber attacks or even create potent biological weapons.