America's plan to control global AI - by Henry Farrell
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The Biden administration, in its final days, has laid out an extraordinarily ambitious plan to use its chokepoint on high end semiconductors to control global AI. The best explanation I’ve seen is this Bloomberg scoop by Mackenzie Hawkins and Jenny Leonard, published a few days before the draft plan was published. The draft plan itself is available on the Federal Register (warning - there is a lot of export controls lawyerly jargon). The idea is to use export controls to restrict the selling and use of AI, to achieve two U.S. policy goals. The first is America’s desire to keep the most…
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