Battle for computer chips: “The US will freeze China’s AI technology in 2022”

Washington is fighting China’s advances in artificial intelligence with strict export bans – a historically unique move, says defense expert Greg Allen. He believes that Beijing will use espionage to try to get hold of the high-performance technology.

Technician walk through a bay at the Globalfoundries Inc. semiconductor fabrication plant in Dresden, Germany, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. As the US has implemented unexpectedly strict rules on the transfer of semiconductor technology to China, the EU has paved the way for chipmakers to receive unprecedented state funds to build production sites as part of its EU Chips Act. Photographer: Liesa Johannssen/Bloomberg

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American politicians like to praise their actions as historic, but at the beginning of October America’s security policy actually saw a novelty: the Joe Biden government imposed the strictest and most far-reaching export bans on computer chips against China to date. They concern state-of-the-art computer chips, which are needed to make calculations of the key technology artificial intelligence (AI) possible. Above all, Washington’s goal is to prevent the People’s Republic from further integrating AI into its military and thus becoming a military superpower.

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