President Biden's pending executive order – supported by G-7 Nations to curb investment in the Chinese economy – is a sound strategy to handle difficult political questions about Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Quantum Computing, and semiconductor chips. Suppose it is to meaningfully solve some of the most vexing questions about the future of global economies. In that case, however, the reported measures of the order miss a significant avenue for China to access US-developed technology in open-source technology that undermines the intent of this and related national security actions.
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