Tag: The Commerce Department

Trump Admin Moves to Stifle China’s Ability to Weaponize American Tech Against Americans

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The Trump administration on Tuesday introduced a new round of export controls in an effort to further stifle China’s access to U.S. technology.

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it was adding 80 companies — dozens of which are Chinese — to a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns. The move aims to restrict the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ability to acquire and develop ultra fast, or “exascale” supercomputers as well as quantum technologies to be used in military applications.

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Defense, Tech Leaders Warn AI Could Unleash a New Cold War

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In the latter half of the 20th century, global security hinged on nuclear deterrence — now a group of leading AI experts warns that advanced artificial intelligence demands a similar national security strategy.

Just as the specter of mutual assured destruction (MAD) once kept superpowers in check, the experts argue, the threat of a runaway AI catastrophe must spur a new doctrine of mutual assured AI malfunction (MAIM). In a new paper coauthored by Dan Hendrycks, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, the authors call for treating frontier AI development as an urgent national security priority on par with the nuclear arms race.

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