What to Know About the New U.S. AI Diffusion Policy and Export Controls

Published on January 14, 2025

Today, in its waning days, the Biden administration, through the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), released an eagerly anticipated Regulatory Framework for the Responsible Diffusion of Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technology. The policy lays out a global framework to govern the export of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from chips to AI model weights from the United States to the world. The policy builds on previous policy releases focused on limiting exports of AI technology to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and other countries of concern like Russia. The policy is designed to achieve two goals.

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