Require all advanced AI chips to be registered and traceable to their physical location

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Arguments for

Stopping diversion

Proponents say advanced AI chips are being illegally shipped or diverted to unauthorized countries and end users, especially adversaries, and that verifying location is needed to keep them out of hostile military or surveillance uses. They frame this as protection for national, economic, and technological security.

Chip Security Act (CSA): This counters AI-chip smuggling by requiring advanced chipmakers to implement technical security measures to detect and prevent diversion to unauthorized countries and end users.

David Feith · Jun 11, 2026 · full quote
China continues to flout U.S. export controls and this indictment is the latest example. China recognizes the superiority of American AI innovation and will do whatever it must to catch up. That’s why the bipartisan Chip Security Act is urgently needed. The bill will safeguard ou…

John Moolenaar · Mar 26, 2026 · full quote
We have a responsibility to ensure our most advanced technologies do not end up putting American economic and national security at risk. This bill is a commonsense fix to the long-standing challenges of chip smuggling, ensuring our export enforcement officials can stay one step a…

Elizabeth Warren · Feb 17, 2026 · full quote
Require Location Verification for Advanced AI Chips: The Department of Commerce must work to ensure America’s most advanced AI chips are not diverted to unauthorized regions and end up in the hands of our adversaries—especially those fueling military aggression or targeting the U…

House Select Committee on the CCP · Mar 26, 2026 · full quote
If we're going to export advanced AI chips, we need confidence that they don’t end up in the hands of the Chinese military. We’re continuously seeing examples of Chinese espionage, theft, and diversion over and over again. We can’t allow this to keep happening.

Brian Mast · Mar 26, 2026 · full quote

Closing enforcement blind spots

Supporters argue current export controls rely on paperwork and declared destinations, so regulators and exporters often lose visibility after chips leave the factory. Requiring location verification and reporting would expose likely diversion, help investigations, and let enforcement target violations more effectively.

Advanced AI chips are among the most strategically important technologies in the world—but today’s export controls weren’t built to track them after deployment. [...] Current export controls depend on declared destinations, not real-world verification. Once chips leave the factor…

GeoComply · Mar 3, 2026 · full quote
Export controls are moving from paperwork toward hardware-level verification because the old system has been beaten too many times.

Janet Harrison · Jun 19, 2026 · full quote
Fortunately, modern AI chips already have capabilities to support technical location verification, which would allow chip owners to easily provide regular verification that their chips remain in the approximate area of their intended destination. This kind of verification would g…

Asher Brass · May 16, 2025 · full quote
The idea behind CSA is not to prevent chips from working in banned locations like China but to simply expose more data to exporters of chips (and ultimately Bureau of Industry and Security-U.S. Department of Commerce) on their end-users to enhance investigations of transshipping …

Dmitri Alperovitch · Jul 16, 2025 · full quote
The CSA doesn’t attempt to surge BIS personnel to Southeast Asia or rebuild the export control system from the ground up. Instead, it would introduce a surgical fix: location verification for chips exported abroad. If a chip shows up outside its authorized destination, the export…

Kit Conklin · Aug 18, 2025 · full quote

Feasible technical verification

Advocates contend the policy is technically achievable through existing chip capabilities and methods such as ping-based or latency-based verification. They also argue many high-end chips operate in large, power-intensive facilities, making them hard to conceal and easier to trace to final locations.

Hunting down all existing chips is only slightly harder. Most of these chips are in giant data centers the size of small cities using entire power plants' worth of electricity - so hard to hide. The rest can be traced to their final locations using customer records from NVIDIA, T…

Scott Alexander · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
The Chip Security Act (CSA) requires companies to verify that advanced AI chips remain in authorized locations to prevent diversion to foreign adversaries. [...] Ping-based location verification (PBLV) serves as a clear example of how the CSA's requirements can be met without com…

CAIS Action Fund · Dec 10, 2025 · full quote
Latency-based location verification can be applied to advanced semiconductors to ensure chips end up where they're supposed to. The Chip Security Act (H.R. 3447) would make this a reality. America's AI leadership depends on knowing where our chips go. It's time to move from trust…

American Security Fund · Feb 2026 · full quote
Ping-based location verification through a trusted landmark server utilizing secure software- or firmware-enabled mechanisms.

United States Congress · Jun 24, 2026 · full quote
Verification might look something like a white list of types of AI systems that are allowed to be run on the computer chips. It also might look like location tracking so that we know where the chips are in case we need to recall them.

David Krueger · Feb 2, 2026 · full quote

Foundation for compute governance

Some supporters see registration and monitoring as groundwork for broader governance of frontier AI, including transparency around large chip clusters, supply chains, and use. In this view, traceability makes future agreements and verification regimes more enforceable because concentrations of capability become visible.

The physical foundations of frontier artificial intelligence, the fabrication of advanced semiconductors and the operation of computing infrastructure at the largest scales, shall be subject to international transparency, so that the concentration of capability is visible to all …

The Global AI Accord · Jul 5, 2026 · full quote
The draft Agreement thus obliges states to consolidate and monitor sufficiently large clusters of AI chips (Article V), to monitor the supply chain that produces them (Article VI), and to facilitate verification of how they are used (Article VII).

Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) · May 12, 2026 · full quote
Smuggled chips make future agreements based on compute governance more difficult to enforce because it is hard for either the US or the Chinese government to trace smuggled chips.

AI Futures Project · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
G42’s framework will establish a structured Common Operating Picture (COP) providing continuous, verifiable visibility into the location, control, and authorized use of advanced U.S.-origin AI semiconductors deployed within its environment.

G42 · Feb 23, 2026 · full quote
Based on the results of this research, we’ve made a simple change to the covered chip cluster definition that closes the distributed training loophole: any clusters with more than 1,280 GB of high-bandwidth memory are now also covered, and therefore subject to the registration an…

Robi Rahman · Apr 9, 2026 · full quote

Enabling trusted exports

Backers argue that proving chips remain with authorized users can give policymakers confidence to approve larger deals and broader exports to allies and trusted partners. They present traceability as a way to diffuse U.S. technology more aggressively without relying on blunt restrictions or inadvertently helping adversaries.

Location-verification technology to confirm that chips remain with authorized users, in authorized locations, gives legitimate buyers a way to prove compliance and gives policymakers the confidence to approve larger deals and broader exports.

Kip Levin · Jun 18, 2026 · full quote
The Chip Security Act (CSA) is a bipartisan bill that would require high-end AI chips to have the capability to verify their location before being exported. [...] With the confidence that sensitive exports are going to their intended foreign buyers, the CSA is essential to enabli…

Samuel Hammond · Jul 18, 2025 · full quote
I write to express our support for the Chip Security Act (S.1705/H.R.3447) and to share our views on the key provisions of this bipartisan and bicameral legislation to stop advanced U.S. AI chips from falling into the hands of our adversaries. This legislation is urgently needed …

Mark Beall · Jan 13, 2026 · full quote
We must do better at maintaining and expanding our position in the global market, while safeguarding America’s technological edge. With these enhanced security measures, we can continue to expand access to U.S. technology without compromising our national security.

Tom Cotton · Jul 7, 2025 · full quote
We need to make sure that the AI infrastructure isn’t getting siphoned off to China. This bill advances our ability to expand our chips into global markets with peace of mind.

Cynthia Lummis · Jul 7, 2025 · full quote

Arguments against

Untested blanket mandate

Critics say the proposal would rush complex new tracking requirements into law before they are proven workable. They describe blanket mandates for on-chip or chip-tracking mechanisms as potentially infeasible, costly, and liable to do more harm than good.

SIA members are fully committed to complying with export controls, and we strongly oppose the illicit diversion and misuse of our chip technologies. While we understand policymakers’ interest in addressing this issue, we cannot support blanket mandates for new, untested, and pote…

John Neuffer · Mar 2, 2026 · full quote
While the Chip Security Act sounds like a sharp response to a real problem involving export control evasion and technology diversion, it is not currently a viable solution, and even more concerning, it risks doing more harm than good.

Joseph Hoefer · May 29, 2025 · full quote
Enacting the current draft of the Chip Security Act (CSA) would erode trust and endanger the Administration’s vision to diffuse U.S. AI technology. Specifically, burdensome rules on U.S. companies not required for foreign competitors risk incentivizing customers to shift to non-U…

Consumer Technology Association · Oct 27, 2025 · full quote

Trust and privacy doubts

Opponents argue a federal tracking mandate would create the impression of deepening government control over the American AI stack. They warn this could raise questions about the security, reliability, and privacy of U.S. technology and undermine global trust in it.

Next week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider the Chip Security Act (S.1705 / H.R.3447), which would require companies to track exported AI chips. While there are valid commercial reasons for companies to pursue location verification, a government chip tracking man…

Mike Flynn · Feb 27, 2026 · full quote
SIA members are fully committed to complying with export controls, and we strongly oppose the illicit diversion and misuse of our chip technologies. While we understand policymakers’ interest in addressing this issue, we cannot support blanket mandates for new, untested, and pote…

John Neuffer · Mar 2, 2026 · full quote

Security and market risks

Detractors warn that location-verification features could introduce new cybersecurity vulnerabilities into the systems the chips power. They also argue that extra obligations on U.S. firms, if not matched by foreign competitors, could push customers toward non-U.S. suppliers.

The Chip Security Act [...] would require American-made advanced chips to come equipped with location-verification capabilities creating new cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could compromise the systems they power. This could have a cascading impact, threatening not only Americ…

Luke O'Grady · Jul 15, 2025 · full quote
Enacting the current draft of the Chip Security Act (CSA) would erode trust and endanger the Administration’s vision to diffuse U.S. AI technology. Specifically, burdensome rules on U.S. companies not required for foreign competitors risk incentivizing customers to shift to non-U…

Consumer Technology Association · Oct 27, 2025 · full quote
Next week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider the Chip Security Act (S.1705 / H.R.3447), which would require companies to track exported AI chips. While there are valid commercial reasons for companies to pursue location verification, a government chip tracking man…

Mike Flynn · Feb 27, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Problem recognized, mandate questioned

Some skeptical quotes accept that chip diversion is a real problem and that location verification may have valid uses, but stop short of supporting a blanket government mandate. They call for caution on imposing sweeping requirements before technical feasibility, costs, and broader consequences are clearer.

Next week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider the Chip Security Act (S.1705 / H.R.3447), which would require companies to track exported AI chips. While there are valid commercial reasons for companies to pursue location verification, a government chip tracking man…

Mike Flynn · Feb 27, 2026 · full quote
SIA members are fully committed to complying with export controls, and we strongly oppose the illicit diversion and misuse of our chip technologies. While we understand policymakers’ interest in addressing this issue, we cannot support blanket mandates for new, untested, and pote…

John Neuffer · Mar 2, 2026 · full quote
While the Chip Security Act sounds like a sharp response to a real problem involving export control evasion and technology diversion, it is not currently a viable solution, and even more concerning, it risks doing more harm than good.

Joseph Hoefer · May 29, 2025 · full quote

Insights

Even skeptical quotes often accept that export-control evasion or chip diversion is a genuine concern; the sharper dispute is over whether a mandatory tracking regime is the right response.
Most quotes frame the issue around exported or U.S.-origin chips, authorized destinations, and foreign diversion.
Supporters split between near-term export enforcement goals and broader compute-governance or AI-safety goals.
A key factual disagreement is feasibility: proponents cite existing technical methods, while opponents call mandated mechanisms untested or potentially infeasible.
Some supporters explicitly describe location verification as an investigative visibility tool that could support larger approved exports, rather than as a standalone way to end smuggling.

Across the quotes, the proposal is usually discussed in export-control terms, especially stopping diversion of advanced U.S.-origin chips to unauthorized regions and users. Supporters present registration and traceability as a technically plausible way to replace paperwork with verifiable visibility, improve targeted enforcement, and support broader governance arrangements. Opponents mainly challenge the mandate's design and consequences, warning that blanket, unproven tracking requirements could weaken trust, security, privacy, and the market position of U.S. technology.

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AI Futures Project
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Smuggled chips make future agreements based on compute governance more difficult to enforce because it is hard for either the US or the Chinese government to trace smuggled chips.
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Hunting down all existing chips is only slightly harder. Most of these chips are in giant data centers the size of small cities using entire power plants' worth of electricity - so hard to hide. The rest can be traced to their final locations using c...
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The physical foundations of frontier artificial intelligence, the fabrication of advanced semiconductors and the operation of computing infrastructure at the largest scales, shall be subject to international transparency, so that the concentration of...
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Ping-based location verification through a trusted landmark server utilizing secure software- or firmware-enabled mechanisms.
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Janet Harrison
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Export controls are moving from paperwork toward hardware-level verification because the old system has been beaten too many times.
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Chris McGuire
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It’s very clear that there’s a significant problem about diversion of chips to China. If there are technical measures that can be helpful, we should be implementing them.
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Kip Levin
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Location-verification technology to confirm that chips remain with authorized users, in authorized locations, gives legitimate buyers a way to prove compliance and gives policymakers the confidence to approve larger deals and broader exports.
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FDD Action
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Mandate location verification for advanced AI chips and enforce reporting requirements to prevent smuggling and diversion to restrict entities (H.R. 3447/S. 1705, the Chip Security Act).
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David Feith
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Chip Security Act (CSA): This counters AI-chip smuggling by requiring advanced chipmakers to implement technical security measures to detect and prevent diversion to unauthorized countries and end users.
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Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
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The draft Agreement thus obliges states to consolidate and monitor sufficiently large clusters of AI chips (Article V), to monitor the supply chain that produces them (Article VI), and to facilitate verification of how they are used (Article VII).
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Rowan Wilkinson
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The act seeks to prevent US chips from being illegally shipped or diverted to foreign adversaries, especially China, by requiring companies to verify that semiconductors used in AI remain in authorized locations.
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Based on the results of this research, we’ve made a simple change to the covered chip cluster definition that closes the distributed training loophole: any clusters with more than 1,280 GB of high-bandwidth memory are now also covered, and therefore ...
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Ivan Ferrari
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Washington is addressing chip enforcement in two halves: location verification and remote access controls. The third gap — end-use verification at the workload level — remains open in U.S. legislation.
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Require Location Verification for Advanced AI Chips: The Department of Commerce must work to ensure America’s most advanced AI chips are not diverted to unauthorized regions and end up in the hands of our adversaries—especially those fueling military...
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If we're going to export advanced AI chips, we need confidence that they don’t end up in the hands of the Chinese military. We’re continuously seeing examples of Chinese espionage, theft, and diversion over and over again. We can’t allow this to keep...
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China continues to flout U.S. export controls and this indictment is the latest example. China recognizes the superiority of American AI innovation and will do whatever it must to catch up. That’s why the bipartisan Chip Security Act is urgently need...
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The United States is in a global AI arms race with the Chinese Communist Party, and advanced chips are the crown jewel of American innovation. The Chip Security Act would implement common-sense security measures to prevent these chips from being dive...
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International governance thus requires some way to track these high-end chips.
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Export compliance cannot rely solely on documentation and trust-based declarations. It requires mechanisms that extend oversight beyond the point of sale.
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Artificial intelligence infrastructure is becoming a strategic asset class. Trust, verification, and responsible stewardship must therefore be engineered directly into the compute layer. Through this assurance framework, we plan to embed compliance, ...
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G42’s framework will establish a structured Common Operating Picture (COP) providing continuous, verifiable visibility into the location, control, and authorized use of advanced U.S.-origin AI semiconductors deployed within its environment.
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Elizabeth Warren
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We have a responsibility to ensure our most advanced technologies do not end up putting American economic and national security at risk. This bill is a commonsense fix to the long-standing challenges of chip smuggling, ensuring our export enforcement...
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David Krueger
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Verification might look something like a white list of types of AI systems that are allowed to be run on the computer chips. It also might look like location tracking so that we know where the chips are in case we need to recall them.
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Latency-based location verification can be applied to advanced semiconductors to ensure chips end up where they're supposed to. The Chip Security Act (H.R. 3447) would make this a reality. America's AI leadership depends on knowing where our chips go...
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Mark Beall
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I write to express our support for the Chip Security Act (S.1705/H.R.3447) and to share our views on the key provisions of this bipartisan and bicameral legislation to stop advanced U.S. AI chips from falling into the hands of our adversaries. This l...
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The Chip Security Act (CSA) requires companies to verify that advanced AI chips remain in authorized locations to prevent diversion to foreign adversaries. [...] Ping-based location verification (PBLV) serves as a clear example of how the CSA's requi...
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The Chinese Communist Party has proven time and again that they are bad faith actors when it comes to stealing American innovation. To maintain our AI dominance, we must prevent American technological exports from being diverted into black market baz...
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Kit Conklin
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The CSA doesn’t attempt to surge BIS personnel to Southeast Asia or rebuild the export control system from the ground up. Instead, it would introduce a surgical fix: location verification for chips exported abroad. If a chip shows up outside its auth...
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Onni Aarne
Compute policy researcher and consultant at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, specializing in AI chip location verification and compute governance.

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The Action Plan includes valuable measures to get BIS better information about where and how smuggling is happening, through collaboration with the intelligence community, and location verification. Location verification for AI chips in particular is...
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Samuel Hammond
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The Chip Security Act (CSA) is a bipartisan bill that would require high-end AI chips to have the capability to verify their location before being exported. [...] With the confidence that sensitive exports are going to their intended foreign buyers, ...
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The idea behind CSA is not to prevent chips from working in banned locations like China but to simply expose more data to exporters of chips (and ultimately Bureau of Industry and Security-U.S. Department of Commerce) on their end-users to enhance in...
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We need to make sure that the AI infrastructure isn’t getting siphoned off to China. This bill advances our ability to expand our chips into global markets with peace of mind.
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Tom Cotton
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We must do better at maintaining and expanding our position in the global market, while safeguarding America’s technological edge. With these enhanced security measures, we can continue to expand access to U.S. technology without compromising our nat...
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Raja Krishnamoorthi
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If we allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue smuggling our most advanced AI chips into its military and surveillance state, it doesn’t just mean export controls that are on the books are going unenforced—we’re risking America’s technological e...
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Darin LaHood
U.S. Representative from Illinois; member of the House Select Committee on China and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

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AI is one of the most high-stakes fronts in our strategic competition with the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has a track record of exploiting U.S. capital and intellectual property to develop its own advanced technology. I am proud to join my coll...
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Scott J Mulligan
Early-stage investor at Rainfall Ventures and former MIT Technology Review AI reporter writing on AI policy and chip smuggling.

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But the reality is that we have limited knowledge on the smuggling market and the exact number of chips even being trafficked. So although location verification for AI chips is not a perfect solution to end all smuggling, it could still be an effecti...
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Asher Brass
AI governance researcher at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, working on compute governance and chip location verification.

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votes For and says:

Fortunately, modern AI chips already have capabilities to support technical location verification, which would allow chip owners to easily provide regular verification that their chips remain in the approximate area of their intended destination. Thi...
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Bill Foster
U.S. Representative from Illinois and former physicist

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As Congress’ chip designer, AI programmer, and PhD physicist, I know that we have the technical tools to prevent powerful AI technology from getting into the wrong hands. With advanced AI chips being smuggled into China and posing a national security...
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Bill Huizenga
U.S. Representative from Michigan

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American innovation and AI computing technology has the potential to change everything from how we complete daily tasks to unlocking the next era of scientific breakthroughs. In order for the United States to maintain our technological advantage, we ...
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Deric Cheng
Director of Research at Windfall Trust; lead of AGI Social Contract initiative; AI economics and policy researcher

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Registering and tracking the ownership of high-end AI chips has become a widely discussed topic in US policy due to two factors: the developing US/China AI competition as evidenced by recent export controls limiting Chinese AI chip access, and the in...
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John Neuffer
President and CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Association

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SIA members are fully committed to complying with export controls, and we strongly oppose the illicit diversion and misuse of our chip technologies. While we understand policymakers’ interest in addressing this issue, we cannot support blanket mandat...
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Mike Flynn
Senior Vice President and Counsel for Government Affairs and Economic Security Policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI).

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votes Against and says:

Next week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider the Chip Security Act (S.1705 / H.R.3447), which would require companies to track exported AI chips. While there are valid commercial reasons for companies to pursue location verification, ...
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Consumer Technology Association
U.S. trade association representing the consumer technology industry and producer of CES

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Enacting the current draft of the Chip Security Act (CSA) would erode trust and endanger the Administration’s vision to diffuse U.S. AI technology. Specifically, burdensome rules on U.S. companies not required for foreign competitors risk incentivizi...
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Luke O'Grady
Cybersecurity policy analyst at the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law.

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The Chip Security Act [...] would require American-made advanced chips to come equipped with location-verification capabilities creating new cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could compromise the systems they power. This could have a cascading impac...
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Joseph Hoefer
Technology policy analyst and contributor to Tech Policy Press, writing on AI chip tracking and export-control governance.

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While the Chip Security Act sounds like a sharp response to a real problem involving export control evasion and technology diversion, it is not currently a viable solution, and even more concerning, it risks doing more harm than good.
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