According to reports, The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries.

However, the suggested framework also caused European Union officials and executives in the semiconductor business to express alarm over export limits that would impact 120 countries.

Although much of the underlying attention is directed at China, countries like Mexico, Portugal, Israel, and Switzerland may have restricted access to the chips required for AI data centers and businesses.

“If it's China and not the United States determining the future of AI on the planet, I think that the stakes are just profound,” says White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

With just a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, Biden officials made clear it would be up to Trump to follow through with or drop an approach.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says, “It is critical to preserve America’s leadership in AI and the development of AI-related computer chips. Fast-evolving AI technology enables computers to produce novels, make scientific research breakthroughs, automate driving, and foster a range of other transformations that could reshape economies and warfare.”

Raimondo says, “It is designed to safeguard the most advanced AI technology and ensure that it stays out of the hands of our foreign adversaries but also enables the broad diffusion and sharing of the benefits with partner countries.”

Although exports to enemies like China and Russia were already subject to restrictions under the Biden administration, some of those restrictions had flaws, and the new rule would impose restrictions on a far larger range of nations. According to Ed Mills, an analyst at Raymond James, U.S. officials are particularly concerned about data centers constructed in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.