Biden Seeks Cloud Provider Help to Thwart Foreign AI Development
• The Biden administration wants cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft to investigate foreign clients using their platforms to develop AI apps and report suspicious activity.
• The proposal would require providers to reveal names and IP addresses of foreign customers as well as devise budgets for collecting those details.
• The goal is to choke off Chinese firms' access to data centers and servers needed to train and host AI models.
• The rules place burden of collecting and analyzing customer data on the cloud providers, similar to financial industry.
• It's part of broader US effort to rein in China’s AI development due to concerns over military applications.