The global AI leadership race is now a race for the most advanced chips. In a new insight, Technology and Innovation Policy Analyst Angela Luna discusses the Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for National Artificial Intelligence (GAIN AI) Act and explains why the most effective strategy for protecting the U.S. advantage in AI is accelerated domestic capacity and innovation.

Key points:

• The GAIN AI Act seeks to address domestic supply constraints and inequality of access by mandating U.S. domestic consumers have priority access to advanced semiconductors before international sales can be fulfilled.
• This policy, however, risks unintentionally harming U.S. technological innovation and advantaging foreign competition by broadly limiting access of leading U.S. chip producers to profitable global markets.
• To sustain long-term U.S. AI competitiveness, policymakers must abandon broad restrictions in favor of a strategy focused on establishing narrow, evidence-based export controls limited strictly to clear security threats and accelerating domestic production and infrastructure development.

Read the analysis.