The Trump administration on July 23 recommended strengthening export controls to verify the location of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips; part of wider efforts to ensure they do not find their way into the hands of foreign adversaries such as China.
The White House revealed the recommendations in “America’s AI Action Plan,” which centers on three main pillars: innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security.
“Advanced AI compute is essential to the AI era, enabling both economic dynamism and novel military capabilities,” the plan states. “Denying our foreign adversaries access to this resource, then, is a matter of both geostrategic competition and national security. Therefore, we should pursue creative approaches to export control enforcement.”…