The rules are a final push by the Biden administration in a yearslong effort to use export controls to stem China's advances in chip-making and AI, and they have sparked a backlash from companies including Nvidia. The rules impose caps on how many advanced AI chips can be exported to certain countries and require a license to export the data that underpins the most sophisticated AI systems.
Strict sales restrictions on these chips are already in place for China, Iran and other U.S. adversaries, and the new rules carve out exemptions for a group of 18 close U.S. allies and partners. These include countries such as the U.K., France and Germany, a senior administration official said, but broad categories of more than 120 other countries, including U.S. allies in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa are set up to face hurdles in setting up large AI computing facilities.
Commerce secretary said last year, while preserving access to diffuse technology across the world its protecting national-security interests that could be jeopardized if adversaries were able to harness AI to enhance their militaries.
Tech companies decried the move. Ned Finkle, Nvidia's vice president of government affairs, said in a blog post Monday morning that global progress in AI that fueled growth for industries around the world "is now in jeopardy."
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