Free-market analysts praise move to scrap ‘AI diffusion’ regulation, with caveats

Tech policy analysts from free market-oriented think tanks largely praised the Trump administration’s decision to pull back the Biden-era “AI diffusion” rule aimed at controlling artificial intelligence exports to different “tiers” of trading partners, although experts posed questions on the scope of the withdrawal as well as on potential national security risks.

"The AI diffusion [rule] was an immensely complicated bureaucratic mess and the administration's move to partially rescind the rule is the right call,” said Matt Mittelsteadt of the...