Something big just took place.
Joe Biden tried to make a sudden change in his final days in office.
He’s demanding a new law that’s causing an eruption of controversy.
Joe Biden’s final days in office are turning out to be far more eventful than most people would have anticipated.
Given the state of Biden’s health and the fact he’s been mostly quiet since the election wrapped up, people assumed he’d quietly fade into the sunset.
But now he’s throwing some major punches and demanding a new law that would have a sudden impact on the tech industry.
In doing so, he’s causing major controversy and getting a lot of pushback.
But Biden isn’t backing down and he is making it clear this is a priority.
According to the Associated Press, “The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries.”
“But the framework proposed Monday also raised concerns of chip industry executives as well as officials from the European Union over export restrictions that would affect 120 countries.”
Trump actually may be interested in this framework as he’s shown concerns about China and other countries in the past.
Perhaps Trump will take a similar view and limit the amount of AI technology that can be exported.
The article continues, “With just a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, Biden officials made clear it would be up to Trump to follow through with or drop an approach that Sullivan said ‘shouldn’t be a partisan issue at all.’”
“Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that it’s ‘critical’ to preserve America’s leadership in AI and the development of AI-related computer chips. Fast-evolving AI technology enables computers to produce novels, make scientific research breakthroughs, automate driving and foster a range of other transformations that could reshape economies and warfare.”
Trump can be a wild card and it’s difficult to predict where he’ll land on any particular issue.
But artificial intelligence is powerful technology that could be incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands, so Trump may look at this policy and decide it’s worth continuing.
It’s possible this could become an issue Trump and Biden come together on despite their differences.