Emerging Tech Outreach Should Be Modernized to Keep Up With Compliance, Report Says
As emerging technologies develop, governments need to expand their outreach practices beyond traditional exporters and manufacturers and also focus on universities, research institutes and investors, a February Strategic Trade Research Institute report advised. Government outreach efforts that are not modernized won’t “yield the desired compliance outcome,” the report said.
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STRI highlighted artificial intelligence as an example, saying identifying it as an emerging technology “exposed the limitations of traditional outreach.” AI, as “a composite technology phenomenon,” is composed of “hard and software dimensions” and spans global “research and development and investment networks,” making traditional export control outreach, such as government-issued guidances, “insufficient to find and address the relevant audiences,” the report said. For AI-related compliance, governments should target venture capital, universities and technology companies, it recommended, adding that compliance in each case will vary depending on the organization. “The current era of innovation is extraordinarily fast paced, with exponential developments in established as well as in cutting edge technologies,” the report said. “In this environment, it is impossible for governments to keep up with change and track the different drivers of change without sustained public-private communication and cooperation.”