Krishnamoorthi, Moolenaar to Introduce Legislation to Protect American AI Leadership

WASHINGTON – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is introducing the Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for National Artificial Intelligence (GAIN AI) Act to ensure that American companies remain at the front of the line for advanced AI chips. The legislation is being co-led by Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI).

“American innovators, not America’s adversaries, should be first in line for the chips that will power the future. Our legislation will ensure the demands of U.S. developers and small businesses for advanced AI chips are prioritized over the needs of our adversaries,” said Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi. “At a time when the most advanced chips are limited in supply, growing our economy and supporting American ingenuity should come before facilitating the CCP’s military modernization and human rights abuses. The GAIN AI Act reinforces our shared commitment to keeping the United States at the forefront of the AI competition with the Chinese Communist Party.”

"The GAIN AI Act will guarantee that no American company is ever put behind a foreign adversary buyer for advanced AI chips," said Chairman Moolenaar. “This is an America First Chip Policy in action that will build sustained American AI dominance.”

The GAIN AI Act would restrict sales of advanced AI chips to companies from arms embargoed countries if there is unmet demand from American companies.

Read the bill text HERE.

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