Anthropic agrees with the U.S. authorities that implementing sturdy export controls on domestically made AI chips will assist the U.S. compete within the AI race in opposition to China. However the firm is suggesting just a few tweaks to the proposed restrictions.
Anthropic launched a blog post on Wednesday stating that the corporate “strongly helps” the U.S. Division of Commerce’s “Framework for Synthetic Intelligence Diffusion” forward of the interim rule’s implementation date on Could 15.
The framework was proposed by outgoing president Joe Biden in January and is supposed to bolster AI chip export controls for the needs of nationwide safety and to make sure the U.S.’ dominance in AI. It divided the world’s nations into three tiers, with every tier having its personal tips and restrictions.
Tier 3, essentially the most restrictive tier, which incorporates nations that have been already impacted by current export controls, like Russia and China, would face extra restrictions. Tier 2 nations, like Mexico and Portugal, would come below export restrictions for the primary time and would have a cap on what number of chips they may purchase. Tier 1 nations, like Japan and South Korea, would proceed with out export restrictions.
When these restrictions have been proposed in January, semiconductor large Nvidia released a statement calling them “unprecedented and misguided,” and suggesting that they’d “derail” innovation worldwide.
Clearly, U.S.-based AI firms, like Anthropic, don’t agree. In its weblog put up, the lab expressed help in broad strokes for the restrictions.
Anthropic did, nevertheless, suggest decreasing the variety of chips Tier 2 nations should purchase with out evaluation and as an alternative encouraging these nations to purchase extra chips by means of government-to-government agreements to keep away from smuggling and enhance U.S. management.
The corporate additionally thinks the U.S. authorities ought to enhance funding to make sure these export controls are correctly enforced.
This assertion by Anthropic is just not significantly stunning. Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei has been one of many extra vocal U.S. AI leaders in favor of export restrictions. Amodei wrote an op-ed within the Wall Street Journal in January about why the U.S. wants stronger chip export controls.
TechCrunch has reached out to Anthropic for extra data.