US agrees to restrict access to ChatGPT for China
Sources speaking to the news agency Reuters made a new move against China.
US President Joe Biden and his team are reportedly considering restricting China's access to software for artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT.
Three sources close to the matter said that the US Department of Commerce is considering a new regulation to restrict the export of proprietary or closed-source artificial intelligence models whose software and data are kept secret.
The US has taken several steps over the past two years to block the export of advanced artificial intelligence chips to China in an effort to slow China's development of cutting-edge technology for military purposes. 
The US Department of Commerce did not respond to questions on the issue. The Chinese Embassy in Washington has also not yet responded to inquiries.
US AI giants like Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Alphabet's Google DeepMind and rival Anthropic, which has developed some of the most powerful closed-source AI models, have no barriers to selling their software to anyone in the world without government oversight.
Government and private-sector researchers worry that US adversaries could use AI models to launch cyberattacks and produce powerful biological weapons.
