Exporting advanced artificial intelligence chips to the UAE
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Microsoft invested $1.5 billion in G42 earlier this year, giving the American company a minority stake and a board seat. As part of this agreement, the Emirati company G24 will use Microsoft’s cloud services to run its artificial intelligence applications.
However, this deal after American lawmakers raised concerns that the G42 might take America’s powerful artificial intelligence technology to be transferred to China, it was checked.
These lawmakers demanded that the U.S. evaluate the G42’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, military, and government before moving forward with the Microsoft deal.
The Axios report states that the export approval license requires Microsoft to prevent access to employees from countries under are under the US arms embargo or are on the list of institutions of the US Department of Industry and Security, to prevent their facilities in the UAE.
The report adds that these restrictions include individuals in China, the Chinese government or employees of any organization headquartered in China.
US officials have said artificial intelligence systems could pose national security risks, including by making it easier to engineer chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. In October, the Biden administration asked the makers of the largest artificial intelligence systems in the country to share details about them with the US government.
Emirati company G42 announced earlier this year that despite concerns about its relationship with China, it is actively working with its partners in the United States and the United Arab Emirates government to comply with standards for the development and deployment of artificial intelligence.
Mubadala investment company, the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates and the private investment company Silver Lake They have shares in G24. The head of this company is Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zaid Al Nahyan, the national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates and the brother of the ruler of the UAE.
