What To Expect Now That Trump Has Scrapped Biden’s Crippling AI Regulations
President Donald Trump pledged to remove barriers to American leadership in AI in January. The president recently made good on this promise by directing the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to scrap President Joe Biden’s Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion on May 13, two days before it was set to go into effect. Although it is unclear what the Trump administration will replace it with, the rescission of the Biden-era framework recognizes the necessity of exporting American chips and AI to maintain America’s technological, economic, and strategic dominance.
The Biden framework would have amended export regulations to impose a worldwide license regime on all advanced semiconductors designed for data center use. This would have also hit graphics processing units (GPUs) used for AI acceleration, including foreign product chips that are “direct products” of American technology.
This would have not only subjected geopolitical rivals such as China to strict controls but also restricted the number of GPUs sold to 150 other countries, many of which are close trading partners and allies, such as Israel, and some which are NATO members (Greece, Portugal, Polan
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