"At first glance, today's artificial intelligence policy landscape suggests a strategic retreat from regulation. As of late, AI leaders such as the US have doubled down on this messaging. JD Vance champions AI policy with a deregulatory flavor. Congress considered a 10-year ban on state AI legislation. On cue, the Trump administration's AI action plan warns against smothering the technology in bureaucracy at this early stage. But the deregulatory narrative is a critical misconception."
"Though the US federal government takes a hands-off approach to AI applications such as chatbots and image generators, it is heavily involved in the building blocks of AI. For example, both the Trump and the Biden administrations have been hands-on when it comes to AI chips a crucial component of powerful AI systems. Biden restricted chip access to competing nations such as China as a matter of national security. The Trump administration has sought deals with countries such as the UAE."
"The US isn't deregulating AI it's regulating where most people aren't looking. Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systems. Taking in the full range of AI's technology stack the collection of hardware, datacenters and software operating in the background of applications such as ChatGPT reveals that countries target different components of AI systems."
Public rhetoric frames AI policy as deregulatory, but governments actively regulate core infrastructure rather than front-end applications. The US federal government largely avoids imposing restrictions on consumer-facing tools like chatbots and image generators while tightly controlling hardware and other foundational elements. Both the Trump and Biden administrations have intervened on chip access, deals, and export controls; Biden has restricted advanced chip exports to certain nations. Other countries target underlying components too: China restricts models to combat deepfakes and inauthentic content, and the EU targeted high-risk applications. Regulation increasingly focuses on the technology stack that powers visible AI services.
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