Amid the war for global dominance in the AI era, the US administration is considering making it mandatory for prominent global cloud services providers — such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — to reveal details about the customers developing AI applications on their platforms.
The move, if implemented, will demand the cloud companies to invest in setting up mechanisms to collate the required information and share it with the US administration. The proposed policy change is seen to be targeting Chinese companies that can use cloud companies to train their large language model.
“We want to make sure we shut down every avenue that the Chinese could have to get access to our models or to train their own models,” US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in an interview with Bloomberg recently.
