U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the department is exploring the possibility of requiring U.S. cloud companies to report that their foreign customers use infrastructure for AI applications, particularly large language models (LLMs) that support AI tools like ChatGPT. The move comes in response to President Joe Biden’s October executive order to identify foreign actors who may use AI for malicious cyber activity. The Commerce Department is also considering export controls to regulate the cloud industry.
The US concern is that Chinese companies will be able to access high-power semiconductor computing power through cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Alphabet’s Google Cloud. Raimondo emphasized that “all avenues must be closed” for China to access American AI models or train its own AI models.
US cloud service providers have expressed concerns that restrictions on their operations abroad without similar measures from allied countries could put US companies at a disadvantage.
Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet have not yet commented on the proposed measures.
Source: Ferra
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