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Decoupling America's Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act 2025 [pdf]

by nnx on 2/2/25, 1:31 PM with 4 comments

  • by schroeding on 2/2/25, 2:36 PM

    > The term artificial intelligence [...] means technology or intellectual property that could be used to contribute to artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence capabilities

    > The term "export", [...], includes [...] the release or transfer of technology or source code relating to the item to a foreign person in the United States.

    > PROHIBITION ON EXPORT (& import) - [...] the export (& import) [...] of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual property to or within the People's Republic of China is prohibited.

    Ehhh, do I misunderstand US legal terms or wouldn't this be a death sentence for open source AI research and any AI papers by US researchers in journals & conferences? Or does public distribution on the web not count as (indirect) export?

  • by causal on 2/2/25, 3:27 PM

    The broad definition of AI here makes Prop 65 look reasonable.