Global Courant 2023-05-01 11:00:33
China uses high technology to oppress its own citizens and even erase its own history. That’s why the US should impose strict restrictions on the export of artificial intelligence and other technology to Beijing, according to a lawmaker who has a bill to do just that.
Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital that China succeeded in using technology to erase national awareness of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, when hundreds and possibly thousands were killed and many more injured touched.
“Despite the historical importance of Tiananmen Square, most people in China are not even aware that the massacre took place,” Green said. “This is because the CCP has removed these events from its heavily censored Internet and kept it out of books and school. Using its advanced technology, the CCP has erased its own history.”
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Rep. Mark Green warns that exporting high-tech systems, including those used to develop AI, will only allow China to harm its own people and potentially US citizens. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
“This regime steals American intellectual property and then undermines our national security, oppresses its own people and threatens global stability,” he added. “My legislation will prevent the CCP from accessing our sensitive technology.”
Green’s bill is the China Technology Transfer Control Act, which aims to impose new limits on U.S. technology exports to China to ensure the U.S. maintains its competitive advantage and to prevent Beijing from using sophisticated systems against its own population. “We have to make sure we don’t give the CCP the tools to harm our nation or its own people,” he said when he introduced the bill in mid-April.
His bill aims to impose new export restrictions on technology used to create AI systems and other technology related to robotics, biotechnology, computers and internet-related services. Export restrictions on those goods would be imposed whenever the Chinese military aided, harmed US national security or allowed China to commit “violations of human rights or religious freedoms” against its own people.
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China, led by President Xi Jinping, is baffled by the idea of restrictions on the use of AI and other technology developed by other countries. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Green said AI poses a particular threat, which is why the US should be more careful and impose export restrictions on China.
“AI offers Americans new and exciting ways to educate our children, run our businesses and secure our country, but like many other technologies, there is also the risk of foreign malicious activity, including by the CCP,” he said. . Green added that deploying AI systems in the US could also pose a threat if the full ramifications of these systems are not understood.
“The CCP’s threats are multifaceted and complex, including threats to our country’s cyber infrastructure and supply chains. Therefore, we must exercise extreme caution when implementing advanced technology solutions such as AI in our country’s critical infrastructure,” he said. . .
House GOP leaders have not indicated whether they have an interest in moving Green’s bill this year, but his proposal to limit exports of AI and other technology to China is one the Biden administration itself is considering.
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President Biden has signaled that he is about to introduce an executive order to restrict AI exports to China. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The White House has been signaling for months that it is moving closer to an executive order that would restrict the export of technology to China related to AI, semiconductors and quantum computing. Biden could bring up the idea later this month around the time of the Group of Seven meeting in Japan.
Chinese officials have already filed an angry response to the idea. In April, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry accused the US of pursuing “selfish interests” by limiting China’s ability to use global AI technology.
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“Such a blatant act of economic coercion and sci-tech bullying goes against the principles of market economy and fair competition, undermines the international economic and trade order, disrupts and destabilizes global industrial and supply chains, and harms the interests of the entire world.” said the spokesman.
He also warned that China would “firmly protect our rights and interests” on the matter, but did not say how.
Pete Kasperowicz is a political editor at Fox News Digital.
