The US Biden administration, during its final week in office, issued a rule limiting sales of powerful AI chips to more than 100 countries, to keep the technology out of the hands of Chinese companies and the military there.
The Biden policy will create a huge AI disparity between the US and its close allies and the rest of the world, some critics contend.
If the rule holds in the new Trump administration, organizations in most countries may be prohibited from buying large numbers of high-powered GPUs used to train and run AI models, although exemptions allow for small-scale sales.
“The fundamental problem here is that these restrictions lock the vast majority of the world and all of the Global South out of the US AI market,” says Arijit Sengupta, CEO and founder of Aible, provider of a cloud platform for generative AI deployments. “While locking out direct AI competitors might have made sense, locking out the vast majority of the world, including countries like Israel and India means the US is actually pushing these countries towards collaborating with countries like China and Russia.”
Source:: Network World