Technology industry groups on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden’s administration to refrain from issuing last-minute rules regulating global access to artificial intelligence chips, saying the restrictions could jeopardize U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. Then he warned me.
The Information Technology Industry Council, which represents companies such as Amazon, Microsoft and Meta, said the rule, which could be announced as soon as Friday, would allow U.S. companies to sell computing systems overseas and cut global markets to competitors. It said it would impose arbitrary restrictions on the ability to transfer.
Last month, Reuters exclusively reported details on the Commerce Department’s plan to authorize global AI chip exports while preventing access by bad actors. The primary purpose of this restriction is to prevent AI from overextending China’s military capabilities.
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, ITI CEO Jason Oxman criticized the administration’s “insistence” on releasing the rule in the final days of President Joe Biden’s term. did. Donald Trump will be inaugurated on January 20th.
“Hurrying the completion of consequential and complex rules could have significant negative consequences,” Oxman said in a Jan. 7 letter seen by Reuters.
While ITI appreciates national security efforts, the letter states that “the potential risks to U.S. global leadership in AI are real and should be taken seriously.”
The group called for such regulations to be issued as proposed rulemakings rather than rules, given the significant geopolitical and economic implications.
Neither the Commerce Department nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment.
Industry opposition to the anticipated rules is becoming increasingly explicit and public.
The Semiconductor Industry Association issued a statement Monday night. And on Sunday, Oracle Executive Vice President Ken Glueck said in a blog post that the rule does not target any activity of concern, but instead “serves as the mother of all regulations for the commercial cloud industry. , which regulates nearly all commercial cloud computing worldwide.” For the first time in history. ”
He said the draft rule’s title, “Export Control Framework for the Proliferation of Artificial Intelligence,” “will be remembered as one of the most disruptive ever to hit the U.S. technology industry.” Probably.”
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