US Final Rule on AI Warns Against Mass Surveillance
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By Raisina Correspondent
New Delhi, January 13: A week ahead of passing baton to Donald Trump, the US President Joe Biden has released final rule on artificial intelligence diffusion. The US has warned against the use of the AI for mass surveillance.
In the factsheet on AI, the US has sought efforts to stop adversaries from misusing the technology for military purposes. “The United States must act decisively to lead this transition by ensuring that U.S. technology undergirds global AI use and that adversaries cannot easily abuse advanced AI,” added the factsheet released by the White House on Monday.
It stated that “powerful AI systems in the wrong hands have the potential to exacerbate significant national security risks, including by enabling the development of weapons of mass destruction, supporting powerful offensive cyber operations, and aiding human rights abuses, such as mass surveillance”.
“Today, countries of concern actively employ AI – including U.S.-made AI – in this way, and seek to undermine U.S. AI leadership. To enhance U.S. national security and economic strength, it is essential that we do not offshore this critical technology and that the world’s AI runs on American rails,” added the factsheet.
The rule document also stated that “it is important to work with AI companies and foreign governments to put in place critical security and trust standards as they build out their AI ecosystems”.
“To strengthen U.S. security and economic strength, the Biden-Harris Administration today is releasing an Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion. It streamlines licensing hurdles for both large and small chip orders, bolsters U.S. AI leadership, and provides clarity to allied and partner nations about how they can benefit from AI,” the White House said in a media statement.
The document listed six key mechanisms for the responsible diffusion of U.S. technology. It stated that “no restrictions will apply to chip sales to 18 key allies and partners. Chip orders with collective computation power up to roughly 1,700 advanced GPUs do not require a license and do not count against national chip caps”.
The overwhelming majority of chip orders are in this category, especially those being placed by universities, medical institutions, and research organizations for clearly innocuous purposes, added the White House.
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It further said: “Entities that meet high security and trust standards and are headquartered in close allies and partners can obtain highly trusted ‘Universal Verified End User (UVEU)’ status. With this status, they can then place up to 7% of their global AI computational capacity in countries around the world – likely amounting to hundreds of thousands of chips.”
Also, it stated that “entities that meet the same security requirements and are headquartered in any destination that is not a country of concern can apply for ‘National Verified End User’ status, enabling them to purchase computational power equivalent to up to 320,000 advanced GPUs over the next two years”.
Furthermore, the rule released on Monday stated that “advanced semiconductors sold abroad be not used by countries of concern to train advanced AI systems”. Also, it called for “restricting the transfer to non-trusted actors of the model weights for advanced closed-weight models”.
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