January 16, 2025

Biden’s Big Bet to Control AI Diffusion with Paul Scharre

AI expert Paul Scharre, executive vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security, joins Emily and Geoff to dig into the Biden Administration’s latest export controls on advanced semiconductors and the prospects for building a global regime to control AI diffusion.

Press release and summary of the AI diffusion rule from the Commerce Department

Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Paul Scharre, “Decoupling Wastes U.S. Leverage on China,” Foreign Policy

Paul Scharre, “Regulating AI is Easier than you Think,” Time

Epoch AI, a great data source on AI developments: epoch.ai

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