US to propose ‘know your customer’ requirements for cloud computing companies

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration will soon propose requirements for cloud companies aimed at finding out who is accessing U.S. clouds to train AI models, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Friday, as the burgeoning AI sector raises increasing security concerns.

“We can’t have non-state actors or China or folks who we don’t want accessing our cloud to train their models,” Raimondo said in an interview with Reuters.

“We use export controls on chips,” she noted, adding, “Those chips are in American cloud data centers so we also have to think about closing down that avenue for potential malicious activity.”