🤖New Export Controls Impacting AI Technology and Business Compliance
Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion
Summary
With this interim final rule, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) revises the Export Administration Regulations' (EAR) controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and adds a new control on artificial intelligence (AI) model weights for certain advanced closed-weight dual-use AI models. In conjunction with the expansion of these controls, which BIS has determined are necessary to protect U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, BIS is adding new license exceptions and updating the Data Center Validated End User authorization to facilitate the export, reexport, and transfer (in-country) of advanced computing (ICs) to end users in destinations that do not raise national security or foreign policy concerns. Together, these changes will cultivate secure ecosystems for the responsible diffusion and use of AI and advanced computing ICs.
Agencies
- Commerce Department
- Industry and Security Bureau
Business Impact
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The rule imposes new compliance and licensing requirements on exporters of AI technology and integrated circuits, which will affect business operations and planning. Companies involved in developing or exporting advanced AI models will need to navigate new controls and may face increased costs to ensure compliance with national security interests.