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01/14/2025

Why President Biden Is Rushing to Restrict AI Chip Exports

The administration took action on this matter Jan. 13

The Biden administration’s move on Jan. 13 to curb exports on the advanced computer chips used to power artificial intelligence (AI) arrived in the wake of two major events over the Christmas holidays that rattled the world of AI.

First, OpenAI released its latest model, o3, which achieved an 88 percent on a set of difficult reasoning tests on which no AI system had previously scored above 32 percent.

"All intuition about AI capabilities will need to get updated" in light of the results, said Francois Chollet, a former AI researcher at Google and a prominent skeptic of the argument that "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) would be achieved any time soon.

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