Meta Says Limits on Sharing AI Technology May Dim US Influence

Meta Platforms Inc. policy chief Nick Clegg warned US government officials that limiting companies from sharing certain artificial intelligence technologies publicly could harm American influence over the relatively new and evolving global AI industry.

In public comments submitted Wednesday to the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Meta wrote that a “restrictive approach” to sharing AI models may mean that technologies developed in other countries “become the global norm.”

Nick Clegg

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“It’s not as if that vacuum is not going to be filled by others,” Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said in an interview. “Open-sourcing is actually the way ...