Washington Post: Senators urge tougher chip controls to stymie Chinese AI advance
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) have issued a populist appeal to Commerce Secretary-designate Howard Lutnick to toughen chip export controls against China, in response to the country’s surprise DeepSeek AI breakthrough.
“Multiple administrations have failed — at the behest of corporate interests — to update and enforce our export controls in a timely manner. We cannot let that continue,” they wrote in a letter provided exclusively to The Washington Post, calling DeepSeek “an export control failure.”
The pair laid out an anti-Big Tech line in arguing that “corporate lobbying” resulted in loopholes to Biden administration export controls, allowing DeepSeek to acquire — and more pointedly Nvidia to sell — the chips it needed to train its AI model.
The senators also asked Lutnick to “insulate” the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security from industry lobbying by hiring senior staffers without existing connections to industry or lobbying firms.
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By: Eva Dou
Source: Washington Post
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