The AI Power Podcast

The biggest ever loophole in U.S. AI chip export controls on China? With Chris McGuire

For the first interview of the AI Power Podcast, Chris McGuire of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly of the White House National Security Council for a conversation on AI and Semiconductor export controls. A shocking release of updated Commerce Department guidance reveals that it has not been enforcing U.S. export controls on sales of AI chips to international subsidiaries of Chinese companies for more than a year. The Commerce Department has moved quickly to close this loophole but left another one open that is just as big. Chris and Greg unpack what this means and where we go from here.

Trailer - What the AI Power Podcast is About

Welcome to The AI Power Podcast. AI is reshaping every dimension of national power — semiconductors, defense, economic policy, geopolitics. The decisions being made right now will define the next century. Hosted by Gregory C. Allen — founder of Decision Tree Research, former director of the Wadhwani AI Center at CSIS, and host of the original AI Policy Podcast — The AI Power Podcast tackles the policy questions that actually matter: who's shaping the technology, how does it affect us, and what's at stake? Each episode brings either a deep dive on the week's AI policy news or an in-depth conversation with the experts, policymakers, and industry leaders making the decisions. Subscribe now. Episode 1 drops soon. Show notes, the full archive of Greg's research, and his newsletter Decision Tree at decisiontreeresearch.com.