“We can't have non-state actors or China or folks who we don't want accessing our cloud to train their models” — US Government wants to bring in tough new regulations to keep tabs on AI

The Biden administration is set to use federal law to levy new rules on companies that use or train artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The rule, piggybacking on the existing Defense Production Act, will mean that companies will have to tell the government when they are training new AI models. Another policy that could potentially be introduced would require cloud companies to monitor and, if necessary, ban foreign entities from training their AI models on US data. Military priority for AI? The Defense Production Act was signed into federal law during the Korean War to prioritize US industry towards the war…