With Its Latest Rule, the U.S. Tries to Govern AI’s Global Spread

On Monday, President Joe Biden’s administration released one of its most ambitious acts of economic and technological policymaking. In an “interim final rule” whose wonky title—a “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion”—belies its importance, the Biden administration has sought to reshape the international AI landscape. The rule seeks to set the export and security terms for the AI market that will produce the world’s most powerful technological systems in the coming…