Biden Administration Adopts Rules to Guide A.I.s Global Spread

The Biden administration issued sweeping rules on Monday governing how A.I.chips and models can be shared with foreign countries, in an attempt to set up a global framework that will guide how artificial intelligence spreads around the world in the years to come.With the power of A.I.

rapidly growing, the Biden administration said the rules were necessary to keep a transformational technology under the control of the United States and its allies, and out of the hands of adversaries that could use it to augment their militaries, carry out cyberattacks and otherwise threaten the United States.The rules put various limitations on the number of A.I.chips that companies can send to different countries, essentially dividing the world into three categories.

The United States and 18 of its closest partners — including Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan — are exempted from any restrictions and can buy A.I.chips freely.Countries that are already subject to U.S.

arms embargoes, like China and Russia, will continue to face a previously existing ban on A.I.chip purchases.All other nations — most of the world — will be subject to caps restricting the number of A.I.

chips that can be imported, though countries and companies are able to increase that number by entering into special agreements with the U.S.government.The rules are aimed at stopping China from obtaining from other countries the technology it needs to produce artificial intelligence, after the United States banned such sales to China in recent years.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

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