美国特朗普政府本周撤销了拜登政府时期旨在限制全球人工智能（AI）芯片出口的规定。商务部下属的工业与安全局（BIS）宣布撤销“AI扩散规则”（AIDR）。该规则原计划于5月15日生效，对芯片出口施加新的限制。BIS认为，这些规定会扼杀美国创新，并给公司带来沉重的监管负担。同时，该规则还可能损害美国与多个国家的外交关系。撤销该规则对英伟达等芯片制造商来说是一个利好消息，因为AIDR旨在限制中国等国家获取先进AI芯片。特朗普政府计划推行一项包容性的战略，与值得信赖的外国合作，同时防止技术落入对手手中。

🚫 美国商务部下属的工业与安全局（BIS）宣布撤销拜登政府时期的“AI扩散规则”（AIDR）。该规则原计划于5月15日生效，旨在限制全球AI芯片的出口。

💡 AIDR若实施，将对芯片出口进行分级管理。第一级包括17个国家和台湾地区，可以不受限制地获得美国芯片；第三级包括中国、俄罗斯、伊朗和朝鲜等国家，将被禁止进口芯片；其余约120个国家则被列为第二级，将受到AI芯片进口数量的限制。

👍 撤销AIDR被视为英伟达等芯片制造商的胜利。BIS认为，该规则会扼杀美国创新，并给公司带来沉重的监管负担，同时也可能损害美国与多个国家的外交关系。

📢 特朗普政府计划推行一项包容性的战略，与值得信赖的外国合作，同时防止技术落入对手手中，并将在未来发布替代规则。

TMTPOST -- The Trump administration this week revoked a rule under former U.S. President Joe Biden to curb worldwide artificial intelligence (AI) chip exports.

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The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) under the U.S. Department of Commerce announced on Tuesday the department initiated a rescission of the Biden administration’s AI Diffusion Rule (AIDR). Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Jeffery Kessler has instructed BIS enforcement officials not to enforce the AIDR with compliace requirements that were set to come into effect on May 15.

“These new requirements would have stifled American innovation and saddled companies with burdensome new regulatory requirements. The AI Diffusion Rule also would have undermined U.S. diplomatic relations with dozens of countries by downgrading them to second-tier status, “ BIS said in a statement. The agency said it will issue a replacement rule in the future.  

 “The Trump Administration will pursue a bold, inclusive strategy to American AI technology with trusted foreign countries around the world, while keeping the technology out of the hands of our adversaries,”said Kesslar. “At the same time, we reject the Biden Administration’s attempt to impose its own ill-conceived and counterproductive AI policies on the American people.”

To scrap the AIDR can be deemed as a win for Nvidia and other chipmakers as the export caps under the rule were unveiled during Biden’s last week in office in January, as part of efforts from the Democratic administration to limit access to the chips needed to power cutting-edge AI. The rule, if enacted, is set to effectively eliminate backdoors for Chinese firms to circumvent existing U.S. export controls on high-tech.

The rule has the world divided into three tiers. Seventeen countries and the Taiwan island, at the top tier, would maintain essentially unmitigated access to American chips. And countries of concern like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in the third tier would be blocked from importing the chips. And the vast majority of the world, around 120 other countries are in the second tier and have to be subject to limits on how many AI chips they can get.

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