BIS Renews Temporary Export Control Classification on AI Software

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security renewed its temporary export control on certain artificial intelligence software, extending it a year from Jan. 6, said that day's Federal Register. BIS originally added the software to temporary controls under export administration regulations because it intended to propose it for multilateral control for the 2020 Wassenaar Arrangement. But Wassenaar’s annual plenary wasn't held last year due to COVID-19. BIS said the extension helps the U.S. “continue its effort at the Wassenaar Arrangement in 2021.”