According to a June 10 report by Reuters at the Amazon Web Services Summit held in Washington, David Sachs, the White House's responsible person for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency affairs, expressed concerns about the overly strict AI regulatory policies in the United States. Sachs believes this may inhibit the growth of America's AI industry and hand over key markets to China. He said that if Chinese chips are everywhere in five years, "this means we have lost... We cannot let such a thing happen."

Sachs believes that to avoid Chinese chips dominating the world market, American chips must first secure their position in the market. Therefore, Sachs publicly stated: The risk of American AI chips being smuggled into the hands of "criminal elements" is not so high. "When we talk about these chips, it seems as though they can be smuggled in briefcases. But in reality, it's not like that. These devices actually stand eight feet tall and weigh two tons," Sachs said, "basically making it easy to verify whether these chips are still where they should be."

The report analyzes that former U.S. President Trump's policy in the AI field may focus on expanding the overseas market for American AI chips and large models. During the administration of former President Biden, relevant U.S. policies focused on strictly controlling the export of advanced chips to prevent them from falling into the hands of China.

"I do worry that our fears prevent us from seizing opportunities and ultimately lead to us killing these remarkable advancements with our own hands," Sachs said. He also cited numerous bills passed by state legislatures aimed at regulating artificial intelligence, noting that these bills actually bring legal difficulties to enterprises in building data centers supporting AI.

It was introduced that former President Trump had already revoked an executive order issued by Biden aimed at promoting competition, protecting consumers, and ensuring AI is not used to spread misinformation. He also revoked Biden's so-called "AI proliferation guidelines," which aimed to restrict the import of American AI chips into certain countries to prevent rapid increases in their AI computing capabilities.

"We revoked Biden's 'proliferation guidelines,' which turned 'proliferation' into a negative term. But the diffusion of American technology should actually be a positive term," Sachs said.

One point that can corroborate Sachs' statement is that the Trump administration last month jointly announced with the UAE that the latter would build the largest AI park outside the United States. Previously, the Biden administration had many restrictions on exporting AI chips to Gulf states.

The U.S. and UAE announced they will jointly build the world's largest AI industrial park. The New York Times

In response to such restrictions, Sachs said: "How did we deal with them before? We basically pushed them toward China." He added that if Chinese-produced AI chips are everywhere in five years, "this means we have lost... We cannot let such a thing happen."

This year, China's AI application DeepSeek shocked the world with its advanced and cost-effective training models. Sachs called for eliminating innovation barriers in America's AI industry due to significant progress made by China in AI models. "China is not years behind us in the AI field. Maybe they are only three to six months behind," Sachs said, "it's a very intense competition." However, the White House later clarified that Sachs was referring only to AI large models, stating that China is still one to two years behind the U.S. in AI chips.

Despite subtle changes in America's attitude towards chip exports, China remains the "number one hypothetical enemy" in relevant fields for the U.S. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian once said: The U.S. abuses export controls and "long-arm jurisdiction," generalizes the concept of "national security," and imposes groundless suppression on China's chip and AI industries, seriously violating market rules and disrupting global supply chain stability, emphasizing that "China firmly opposes and will never accept it."

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