US proposes to regulate AI the same way it regulates weapons exports – Fanatical Futurist by International Keynote Speaker Matthew Griffin

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has the capability to be one of, if not the, most impactful technologies ever and at the moment, like almost every other government on the planet, the US government has no idea how to properly regulate it. But what the US does know is that it doesn't want other countries using its own AI technology against it, especially in the event of war as we continue to see the emergence of autonomous AI powered weapons systems, from Chinese "fire and forget" cruise missiles to fully autonomous Russian nuclear submarines. As a result a new proposal published recently by the Department of Commerce lists a wide range of AI technologies that could potentially require a license to sell to certain countries, and the categories of restricted "exports" are as diverse as Machine Vision and Natural Language Processing tech. As you'd expect though it also lists military specific products like adaptive camouflage and surveillance technology. The small number of countries these regulations would target includes one of the biggest names in AI – China, who last year announced that they want to be world leaders in AI by 2030.