#daaicca — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #daaicca, aggregated by home.social.
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Surely we should be calling this “The Spook-Hawley AI Censorship Act”?
I hate it when I’m right; back in 2023 I wrote:
(3) If the Government is encouraged to suppress general access to code, it will attempt to do so; and then the suppressions will fail several years, perhaps a few decades, later.
…comparing this to the old ITAR regime; see also my more recent blogpost on the Regulation of Public [AI] Power; but anyway: via the LinkedIn of Lukasz Olejnik, we learn about this new draft bill:
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025’’.
So, DAAICCA? — wherein, from the mind of Josh Hawley, we find:
PROHIBITIONS ON IMPORT AND EXPORT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
…and restrictions upon:
…RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT THAT BENEFITS THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA…
…and:
PROHIBITION ON UNITED STATES PERSONS HOLDING AN INTEREST IN OR PROVIDING FINANCING TO CHINESE ENTITIES INVOLVED IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.
So basically yeah, some Americans are proposing a huge export-control-based global censorship regime like ITAR all over again, and it will fail the same way if not beforehand / if not also causing more harm to America than good.
Lukasz’ Summary