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

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  • AI Futures Project
    Nonprofit AI forecasting research group behind AI 2027 and Plan A; led by Daniel Kokotajlo.
    votes For and says:
    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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  • votes For and says:
    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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  • votes For and says:
    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).
    AI Verified source (Jun 17, 2026)
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  • David Feith
    Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute; former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and National Security Council official
    votes For and says:
    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.
    AI Verified source (Jun 11, 2026)
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  • votes For and says:
    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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  • votes For and says:
    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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  • votes For and says:
    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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  • GeoComply
    Location-technology company that provides geolocation compliance and anti-fraud tools for regulated industries.
    votes For and says:
    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 verificatio...
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  • votes For and says:
    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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  • Mark Beall
    President of Government Affairs at the AI Policy Network.
    votes For and says:
    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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  • CAIS Action Fund
    Policy advocacy organization affiliated with the Center for AI Safety, focused on reducing catastrophic AI risks.
    votes For and says:
    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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  • With Honor Action
    Cross-partisan veterans advocacy organization focused on national security and civic leadership
    votes For and says:
    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
    Nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center and senior vice president for risk and compliance at Exiger.
    votes For and says:
    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.
    votes For and says:
    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
    Director of AI Policy and Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation
    votes For and says:
    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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  • Dmitri Alperovitch
    Co-founder and chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator; co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike; cybersecurity and national security policy expert.
    votes For and says:
    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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  • votes For and says:
    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.
    AI Verified source (Jul 7, 2025)
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  • Tom Cotton
    U.S. Senator from Arkansas (Republican); member of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees
    votes For and says:
    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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  • votes For and says:
    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.
    votes For and says:
    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.
    votes For and says:
    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.
    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
    votes For and says:
    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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  • votes For and says:
    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
    votes For and says:
    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
    votes Against and says:
    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).
    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
    votes Against and says:
    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.
    votes Against and says:
    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.
    votes Against and says:
    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.
    AI Verified source (May 29, 2025)
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