The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard US AI from China and Russia with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI Models, the core software of artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, sources said.
The US 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 development 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 while the Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Chinese Embassy described the move as a “typical act of economic coercion and unilateral…
